scholarly journals EXAMINING EMPLOYMENT QUALITY AMONG FEMALE IMMIGRANT TRAINEES IN TAIWAN

2021 ◽  
Vol 79 (6) ◽  
pp. 993-1010
Author(s):  
Ya-Ling Wu
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Female Immigrant ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Female Immigrants ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Employment Quality ◽  
Developmental Contextual

This study examined a proposed model of employment quality among female immigrants after their participation in vocational training in Taiwan, drawing on the developmental-contextual model of career development. It simultaneously tested the relationship between the distal contextual variable (i.e., perceived Taiwanese attitudes toward immigrant women (PTAs)), proximal contextual variables (i.e., vocational training experiences (VTEs) and social support (SS)), the individual-level variable (i.e., self-perceived employability (SPE)), and employment quality (EQ) in the model. A questionnaire survey was conducted among 447 female immigrant trainees who had worked for over 6 months after vocational training in Taiwan. The results supported the proposed model based on the developmental-contextual approach, which explained 56.9% of the variance in EQ. The results further revealed that PTAs positively affected SPE, VTEs and SS. In turn, VTEs and SS positively directly and indirectly affected EQ through their impacts on SPE, and SPE positively influenced EQ. The three most important factors that determined the EQ of immigrant women who participated in vocational training were VTEs, SPE, and PTAs. Keywords: career development, employment quality, immigrant women, vocational training

Of bonding and bridging: Ethnic social capital and contingent employment among immigrant women in Korea

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-205
Author(s):  
Harris Hyun-soo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Temporary Work ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Contingent Employment ◽  
Bonding And Bridging ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

This paper examines the relationship between ethnic social capital and contingent employment or temporary work among immigrant women in Korea. It focuses on two types of social capital: bonding and bridging. The former is conceptualized in terms of co-ethnic ties, whereas the latter is measured as interethnic connections (ties with native-born population). Using multilevel analysis, the current research examines the extent to which such networks, measured at individual and community levels, are associated with the probability of contingent employment for a nationally representative sample of foreign-born wives in South Korea. At the individual level, the size of interethnic networks is found to be significantly related to lower odds of contingent employment. Bonding social capital, on the other hand, is not a significant factor. A cross-level interaction effect is also observed: the relationship between bridging social capital and temporary work status is weaker in a regional community characterized by a higher degree of ethnicity-based discrimination.

Careers and Career Development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jos Akkermans ◽  
Daniel Spurk ◽  
Nadya Fouad
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Social Exchange Theory ◽  
Conservation Of Resources ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Career Theory ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Career Research

The field of career studies primarily focuses on understanding people’s lifelong succession of work experiences, the structure of opportunity to work, and the relationship between careers and work and other aspects of life. Career research is conducted by scholars in a variety of disciplines, including psychology, management, and sociology. As such, it covers multiple levels of analysis and is informed by different theoretical frameworks, ranging from micro (i.e., individual) to macro (e.g., organizational, institutional, cultural). The most dominant theoretical perspectives that have been mobilized in career research are boundaryless and protean career theory, career construction theory, and social cognitive career theory. Other perspectives that have increasingly been adopted include sustainable careers, kaleidoscope careers, psychology of working theory, and theories from related disciplines, such as conservation of resources theory and social exchange theory. Key topics in the field of career studies include career self-management, career outcomes (e.g., career success, employability), career transitions and shocks, calling, and organizational career management. Research at the micro level with outcomes on the individual level has been dominant in the early 21st century, predominantly focusing on understanding individual career paths and outcomes. Thereby, however, contextual factors as either further important predictors or boundary conditions for career development are also considered as important research topics.

Customer Engagement and its Outcomes: The Cross-Level Effect of Service Environment and Brand Equity

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 377-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juanjuan Ou ◽  
IpKin Anthony Wong ◽  
Catherine Prentice ◽  
Matthew Tingchi Liu
Keyword(s):  
Brand Equity ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Customer Engagement ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Service Environment ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
A Chain ◽  
The Individual

This research seeks to address a void in the literature by exploring both individual and organizational attributes that associate with customer engagement. At the individual level, it builds a chain of relationship leading from customer engagement to attitudinal and behavioral loyalties through impulsive behaviors; and at the organizational level, it purports a cross-level influence from the service environment and brand equity on this relationship chain. Drawing on two independent surveys, results reveal that the service environment emanates direct and moderating effects on customer engagement, while brand equity exerts moderating effects only on certain loyalty attributes. The proposed model thus offers new insights into how research could synthesize both individual and organizational factors, thus enabling better understanding of the role of customer engagement.

scholarly journals The Effect Of Place Of Origin On The Relative Earnings Of Immigrant Women

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahi Garg ◽  
Michael C. Seeborg
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Reference Groups ◽  
Earnings Differentials ◽  
Family Characteristic ◽  
Female Immigrant ◽  
Female Immigrants ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
The U.S

This paper explores the earnings differentials between female immigrants from 14 places of origin when compared to each other and a number of other groups.   The very large differences in average earnings between female immigrant groups are found to be largely due to human capital and family characteristic differences.  The study employs OLS regression to make earnings comparisons between immigrant women from each of the 14 places of origin to three reference groups.  We find that although female immigrants from most countries are doing well relative to female natives, they fall significantly behind native males and male immigrants, even after controlling for differences in human capital.  Thus, some groups of immigrant women suffer a double disadvantage in the U.S. workforce, one due to gender and the other due to their relatively low levels of human capital.

A new model of growth back-calculation incorporating age effect based on otoliths

2001 ◽  
Vol 58 (9) ◽  
pp. 1805-1811 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kentaro Morita ◽  
Takashi Matsuishi
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rates ◽  
Age Effect ◽  
Calculation Model ◽  
New Model ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Salvelinus Leucomaenis ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Back Calculation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Slow Growing

We developed a simple back-calculation model that includes the age effect in which otolith size increases continuously during no-growth periods. To evaluate the validity of our proposed model, we back-calculated the past fish lengths and growth rates using the new model and seven traditional back-calculation models (scale-proportional hypothesis (SPH), body-proportional hypothesis (BPH), Fraser–Lee, biological intercept, nonlinear SPH, nonlinear BPH, and modified Fry) using the otoliths of individually tag-recaptured white-spotted char (Salvelinus leucomaenis). The estimated fish lengths corresponded well to observed fish lengths for simple traditional (SPH, BPH, and Fraser–Lee) and the new models. However, the back-calculated growth rates did not correspond to observed growth rates except for the new model. All previous models had considerable bias; growth rates of slow-growing fish were overestimated. As our model incorporating the age effect did not show such bias, this bias would be attributed to the age effect. Our proposed back-calculation model incorporating the age effect should be useful to estimate past growth rates at the individual level.

Differential Effects of Competence and Morality on Self-Esteem at the Individual and the Collective Level

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-198
Author(s):  
Wiktor Soral ◽  
Mirosław Kofta
Keyword(s):  
Self Esteem ◽  
Differential Effects ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual

Abstract. The importance of various trait dimensions explaining positive global self-esteem has been the subject of numerous studies. While some have provided support for the importance of agency, others have highlighted the importance of communion. This discrepancy can be explained, if one takes into account that people define and value their self both in individual and in collective terms. Two studies ( N = 367 and N = 263) examined the extent to which competence (an aspect of agency), morality, and sociability (the aspects of communion) promote high self-esteem at the individual and the collective level. In both studies, competence was the strongest predictor of self-esteem at the individual level, whereas morality was the strongest predictor of self-esteem at the collective level.

Testing a Developmental-Contextual Model of Early Adolescent Career Development

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Hirschi ◽  
Spencer G. Niles ◽  
Patrick Akos ◽  
Elias Mpofu
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Early Adolescent ◽  
Contextual Model ◽  
Developmental Contextual

Metonymy in Dance: Ballet Bunheads Take a Cognitive Turn

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-34
Author(s):  
Edward C. Warburton
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Artistic Development ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Figures Of Speech ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Level I ◽  
Dance Educators ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Metaphor And Metonymy

This essay considers metonymy in dance from the perspective of cognitive science. My goal is to unpack the roles of metaphor and metonymy in dance thought and action: how do they arise, how are they understood, how are they to be explained, and in what ways do they determine a person's doing of dance? The premise of this essay is that language matters at the cultural level and can be determinative at the individual level. I contend that some figures of speech, especially metonymic labels like ‘bunhead’, can not only discourage but dehumanize young dancers, treating them not as subjects who dance but as objects to be danced. The use of metonymy to sort young dancers may undermine the development of healthy self-image, impede strong identity formation, and retard creative-artistic development. The paper concludes with a discussion of the influence of metonymy in dance and implications for dance educators.

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