scholarly journals Occupational change on the dualised Swedish labour market

2020 ◽  
pp. 0143831X2095971
Author(s):  
Tomas Berglund ◽  
Kristina Håkansson ◽  
Tommy Isidorsson
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Temporary Employment ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Occupational Structure ◽  
Temporary Contracts ◽  
Occupational Change ◽  
Main Pattern

In the Swedish labour market, recent research has revealed tendencies of both dualisation – implying growth in temporary employment – and polarisation – referring to increased employment in both low- and high-paid jobs, while middle-paid jobs decrease. This study explores the relationships between changes in the occupational structure and the distribution of temporary employment. Using the Labour Force Survey and comparing changes between 2000 and 2015, the study shows a main pattern of upgrading. However, splitting the analysis into permanent and temporary employment, tendencies of polarisation are revealed: growth at the low-paid end consists of temporary employment, while the increase at the high-paid end is mainly of open-ended contracts. Different kinds of temporary contracts matter – on-call employees are more likely to be found at the low end, and project workers at the high end. The study shows increasing precariousness in the lower end of the occupational structure.

scholarly journals Have British Jews fully assimilated in the UK Labour Market?

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Nabil Khattab
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Occupational Attainment ◽  
Main Stream ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Majority Group ◽  
The Uk

<p class="pagecontents"><span lang="EN-GB">This paper analyses the patterns of occupational attainment and earnings among the Jewish community in Britain using UK Labour Force Survey data (2002-2010). The findings suggest that although British-Jews cannot be distinguished from the majority main stream population of British-White in terms of their overall occupational attainment and earnings, it seems that they have managed to integrate through patterns of self-employment and concentration in the service sector economy, particularly in banking and financial services. It is argued that this self-employment profile is a Jewish strategy used to minimise dependency on majority group employers and by doing so to helping to escape any religious penalties.</span></p>

scholarly journals Self-Employment and Labour Market Transitions in New Zealand

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinyi Shao ◽  
Mallika Kelkar
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
The Past ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Labour Market Transitions ◽  
Household Labour ◽  
Market Transitions

Self-employment in New Zealand has been trending up in the past two years, following subdued growth between 2000 and 2010. Self-employed people made up 11.3% of total employed in the year to March 2012 (251,800 workers), compared with 10.1% in the year to March 2010. Self-employment is defined in this paper as those people operating their own business without employees. The paper explores time series trends in self-employment, in particular across three post-recession periods. Characteristics of self-employed workers are also identified. This paper also investigates movements in and out of self-employment in order to understand the recent growth in this type of employment. The analysis uses longitudinal Household Labour Force Survey (HLFS) data. The HLFS provides official measures of a range of labour market indicators, including the number of people employed, unemployed and not in the labour force.

Work calculator: a useful tool for modelling relations on the labour market

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (7) ◽  
pp. 14-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Bieć ◽  
Ewa Gałecka-Burdziak ◽  
Robert Pater
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Unemployment Rate ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Seasonal Fluctuations ◽  
Job Offers ◽  
American Model ◽  
The Creation

The aim of the article is to present the concept of a job calculator — a tool used to create a simulation of relations between changes in the economic situation and the labour market in Poland. The job calculator is based on the American Jobs Calculator and is available for everyone. The user determines the height of expected unemployment rate and the tool computes the number of required job offers, the creation and coverage of which will result in the change of the unemployment rate to the predefined level. The calculator uses data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and presents simulations for one quarter. The values refer to the total result, taking into account the seasonal fluctuations and division into long-term and cyclical changes, which is the authors’ contribution to the original American model as well as an extension of this concept.

Jobs calculator – a tool for short-term forecasting of changes in the labour market

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-45
Author(s):  
Maria Bieć ◽  
Ewa Gałecka-Burdziak ◽  
Paweł Kaczorowski ◽  
Robert Pater
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Unemployment Rate ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Participation Rate ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Labour Market Participation ◽  
Employment Rates ◽  
Short Term Forecasting ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of the article is to present a modified and extended version of a jobs calculator – a tool used to perform simulations of the relationship between the unemployment and employment rates while adopting different assumptions regarding the potential trends in Poles’ professional activity and in shaping the size of Poland’s population. The user of the calculator sets the value of the target unemployment rate, and the tool calculates the number of jobs whose creation and filling would be necessary to obtain the desired level of the unemployment rate. The current version of the jobs calculator application has been enhanced compared to the original one in such a way that it allows modifying parameters characterizing the labour market (the labour market participation rate and the rate of the population growth) and creating forecasts within a defined time span. The calculator utilises data from the Labour Force Survey. The paper presents labour market forecasts until 2022 as well as the results of a simulation performed on the data from Labour Force Survey for the 3rd quarter of 2018.

scholarly journals Temporary Employment and the Future Labor Market Status

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Berglund ◽  
Kristina Håkansson ◽  
Tommy Isidorsson ◽  
Johan Alfonsson
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Temporary Employment ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Temporary Employees ◽  
Permanent Employment ◽  
Stepping Stone ◽  
Future Career ◽  
The Future ◽  
Market Status

The aim of this article is to describe and explain the development of temporary employment in Sweden between 1992 and 2010, and to investigate the effect of temporary employment for individuals’ future career on the labor market. The article analyzes temporary employees’ status transitions on the labor market using Swedish Labour Force Survey (LFS) data for the period 1992–2010. Each cohort consists of 2-year panels and focuses on changes between the first and last measuring points. The findings indicate that the specific type of temporary employment is crucial as regards whether or not it constitutes a stepping-stone toward permanent employment. The chances are greater in the case of, for example, substitutes, but are considerably less in the case of on-call employment. Certain types of temporary employment thus seem to be used by the employer to screen the employability of the employee, while others are used for achieving flexibility

Winnaars en verliezers op de arbeidsmarkt 1996-2012

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ineke Bijlsma ◽  
Sander Dijksman ◽  
Didier Fouarge ◽  
Annemarie Kühn-Nelen
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Wage Growth ◽  
Occupational Structure ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Complex Information ◽  
It Skills

Occupational winners and losers in the Dutch labour market 1996-2012 Occupational winners and losers in the Dutch labour market 1996-2012 The occupational structure of the Dutch labour market is changing rapidly. In the years 1996-2012 the educational level of the labour force has increased constantly, which is indicative of knowledge intensification in the economy. Occupations that employ average educated workers have been shrinking, while occupations that employ high educated individuals have been growing. This is consistent with the polarization hypothesis, but these changes are very gradual. Wage growth, computer use and level of problem solving skills all correlate positively with the growth rate of employment in occupations. This suggests that IT skills and the ability to handle complex information are increasingly important in today’s labour market.

Skilled Workers on the Rural Labour Market: Supply vs. Demand

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-42
Author(s):  
Elena Varshavskaya
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Skilled Labour ◽  
Rural Workers ◽  
Scale Of Education

The paper analyzes the correlation between supply and demand for skilled labour on the rural labour market. The paper defines skilled workers as those having tertiary professional education. The empirical basis for the research is constituted by the Labour Force Survey data between 2005 and 2015. It has been proved that in this period the supply of the skilled labour was steadily on the increase that was determined by the growth of both the number and share of people with higher education. The demand for the skilled labour of rural workers showed slower growth rates that resulted in an increasing gap between supply and demand. The research proves that education and qualification of rural workers are being underutilized, and the scale of education-occupation mismatch has been rather big. The most obvious contradiction between education underutilization and its non-purpose use - when people do not work in accordance with their specialization - refer to the workers with technical and agricultural training.

Job Finding in Australia

1994 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 51-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Athanasou
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Australian Bureau ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Job Seeking ◽  
Informal Labour ◽  
Australian Bureau Of Statistics ◽  
Job Finding

Although studies of the labour market have concentrated on employment and unemployment, there have been few Australian studies of job-search experiences. This report documents the methods used by people to obtain jobs in 1982, 1986 and 1990. It considers the proposition that informal job-seeking methods are more likely to lead to employment and that most jobs are obtained without prior knowledge of the vacancy. The data for this report were derived from the Australian Bureau of Statistics monthly labour force survey of households (published and unpublished data) in 1982, 1986 and 1990. Around 1.8 million individuals had started in a new job and at least 35 per cent of jobs resulted from approaches made without prior knowledge that the job was available. Friends and relatives accounted for some 17 per cent of placements and in 25 per cent of cases, the employer approached the job seeker, bringing the proportion of informal methods to at least 77 per cent. Results confirm the views of experienced career counsellors that there is a large and informal labour market.

scholarly journals Evaluating the Labour Market Integration of New Immigrants in the UK

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 645-658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommaso Frattini
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Labour Market Integration ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Immigrants ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
The Uk

This article analyses the labour market integration of newly arrived immigrants in the UK labour market, based on data from the UK Labour Force Survey. We focus on immigrants who arrived in the United Kingdom since 2000 and distinguish different cohorts based on the year of their arrival in the country. We examine the extent to which these new arrivals were able to enter work and move up into skilled jobs, and analyse the sectors of the economy that have proved most amenable to this progression. The analysis indicates that these new arrivals fared relatively well in the workforce. In part as a result of their relative youth and high education levels, many new arrivals (especially those from the European Union and in particular the EU10 countries) moved straight into work.

Temporary employment at labour market entry in Europe: Labour market dualism, transitions to secure employment and upward mobility

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 382-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giampiero Passaretta ◽  
Maarten HJ Wolbers
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Temporary Employment ◽  
Career Progression ◽  
Permanent Employment ◽  
Temporary Contracts ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Term Contract ◽  
Labour Market Entry

This article focuses on school-leavers who enter employment with a temporary contract in the European context, and examines their probabilities to shift to standard employment or unemployment, and their chances of occupational mobility afterwards. The authors argue that two institutional dimensions of insider–outsider segmentation drive the career progression after a flexible entry: the gap between the regulation of permanent and temporary contracts and the degree of unionization. The analyses show that a disproportionate protection of permanent compared to temporary contracts increases the probability of remaining on a fixed-term contract, whereas the degree of unionization slightly decreases the chance of moving to jobs with higher or lower socio-economic status. Finally, a shift to permanent employment after a fixed-term entry is more often associated with occupational upward mobility in strongly rather than weakly unionized labour markets.

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