scholarly journals General Aspects and Perspectives of Immigrant Diversity in Organizations

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (15) ◽  
pp. 208-220
Author(s):  
Dovilė Balevičienė ◽  
Loreta Huber
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
Qualitative Empirical Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Working Age Population ◽  
General Aspects

More than 10% of the world's working-age population are migrants. Migration issues are particularly relevant in Europe, as 2.7 million people came to Europe in 2019 alone. According to the report “WWWforEurope”, the quantity of research investigating cultural diversity is on the rise, the authors of the report Dohse and Gold (2014) have also noted that cultural diversity affects critical economic variables - economic growth, innovation, and the social welfare. Therefore, Gelfand et al. (2017) argue that research on organizational behavior should include more theories of cultural diversity. There has been little such research in Lithuania, so this article aims to analyze immigrant diversity perspectives in Lithuanian organizations. The qualitative empirical research was conducted using expert interviews. Content analysis was conducted using NVivo software. The results show that Lithuania has a low level of immigrant diversity, but therefore there is currently a growing interest and awareness related to this topic. Immigrant diversity is occurring in international organizations, globally born companies, organizations expanding into foreign markets or organizations founded by immigrants themselves. Two types of organizations (according to immigrant diversity perspectives) were categorized: 1) monolithic organization (this type is more prominent, based on resistance and “discrimination-and-fairness” paradigms and highly related to the cultural context of the country); 2) multicultural organization (focus on “integration-and-learning” and “access-and-legitimacy” paradigms).

scholarly journals DEMOGRAPHICS OF KAZAKHSTAN: THE END OF ACTIVE GROWTH CYCLE

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
А.А. Amirbek ◽  
◽  
А. Anuarbekuly ◽  
K. Makhanov ◽  
M. Anlamassova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rates ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Growth Cycle ◽  
Significant Decline ◽  
Active Growth ◽  
Population Growth Rates ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The Social ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Working Age Population

The demographics of Kazakhstan is characterized by waves of increase and decline that occur periodically every 25-30 years. Since 2010, the share of deaths among working age population (from 15 to 60 years) dropped from 35.9 to 29.4. It is important to note that the number of emigrants keeps increasing every year since 2014. We can expect a rather significant decline of the current population growth rates, which are likely to drop below 1% per year in 3-5 years from now. The social and economic shape of the country changed radically. Conditions when economic signals work that allows to draw very essential conclusion were created: the mechanism of the market is started. In the market there was a situation when the prices regulate supply and demand, define movement of commodity streams, the competition nature, investment streams that already characterizes development of the modern period.

scholarly journals The paradox of the social investment state: growth, employment and poverty in the Lisbon era

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 432-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bea Cantillon
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Lisbon Strategy ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
The Social ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Working Age Population ◽  
State Growth

After the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, on the eve of the elaboration of policies designed to help reach the Europe 2020 target of lifting 20 million people out of poverty, it is important to take stock of the outcomes of the Lisbon agenda for growth, employment and social inclusion. The question arises why, despite growth of average incomes and of employment, poverty rates have not gone down, but have either stagnated or even increased. In this paper we identify the following trends: rising employment has benefited workless households only partially; income protection for the working-age population out of work has become less adequate; social policies and, more generally, social redistribution have become less pro-poor. These observations are indicative of the ambivalence of the Lisbon Strategy and its underlying investment paradigm.

scholarly journals The Workforce Aging and Challenges for Policy and for Business. The Case of Italy

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Alessandra De Rose ◽  
Filomena Racioppi ◽  
Pietro Checcucci ◽  
Maria Felice Arezzo ◽  
Corrado Polli
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Aging Process ◽  
Demographic Trends ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Workforce Aging ◽  
Working Age Population ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Implementing Strategies

Across Europe, the working age population is decreasing and aging. In this study, with reference to Italy, we analyze the main demographic trends underlying these processes. By using data from the continuous Labor Force Survey, we show the effects of the overall population dynamics on workforce age structure and its composition by professional activities and economic sector. We argue that the observed changes in the labor market are only partially due to demographic trends since they are strictly intertwined with the rigidity of the Italian economic system. We then illustrate the results of two sample surveys conducted among large and small-medium Italian enterprises, respectively. The main result is that the Italian businesses are moderately aware of the aging process of their human resources, and only a few are worried about it. Only few larger companies are actively implementing strategies of age management in order to cope with the issue. Finally, we discuss the implications for the policy of the above results, also in the light of recommendations from the international organizations.

Generations of İstanbul families, the elderly, and the social economy of welfare

2013 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 5-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Duben
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Women ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Intergenerational Support ◽  
Support Material ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Working Age Population ◽  
The Relationship

As the population of the world ages, the balance between generations is irrevocably changing. Proportionally larger numbers of the no-longer economically active elderly will need to be supported by a shrinking working-age population. Women have increasingly come to outnumber men at advanced ages, presenting elderly women (and their families) with a novel and challenging old-age experience. Indeed, gender is central to understanding the relationship between generations and the glaring imbalance in intergenerational support, material and immaterial.

East-west political divide will grow in Germany

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Far Right ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Skills Shortage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Working Age Population ◽  
Political Divide ◽  
Alternative For Germany ◽  
East West

Subject Germany's east-west divide. Significance Since reunification the social and economic gap between eastern and western states has narrowed but significant disparities persist. These disparities have exacerbated a growing political divide in recent years, with every third voter in more than one-third of eastern municipalities voting for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in last year’s state elections. Impacts The rural and working-age population in most eastern regions is on course to decline sharply over the coming decades. The skills shortage in the east is unlikely to be alleviated by migration as anti-immigration sentiment persists. If the next CDU leader pursues the liberal course adopted by Merkel, more eastern CDU members will likely join the AfD.

scholarly journals Understanding gender segregation through Call Data Records: An Estonian case study

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. e0248212
Author(s):  
Rahul Goel ◽  
Rajesh Sharma ◽  
Anto Aasa
Keyword(s):  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Good Representative ◽  
The Social ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Working Age Population ◽  
Micro Analysis ◽  
Estonian Population

Understanding segregation plays a significant role in determining the development pathways of a country as it can help governmental and other concerned agencies to prepare better-targeted policies for the needed groups. However, inferring segregation through alternative data, apart from governmental surveys remains limited due to the non-availability of representative datasets. In this work, we utilize Call Data Records (CDR) provided by one of Estonia’s major telecom operators to research the complexities of social interaction and human behavior in order to explain gender segregation. We analyze the CDR with two objectives. First, we study gender segregation by exploring the social network interactions of the CDR. We find that the males are tightly linked which allows information to spread faster among males compared to females. Second, we perform the micro-analysis using various users’ characteristics such as age, language, and location. Our findings show that the prime working-age population (i.e., (24,54] years) is more segregated than others. We also find that the Estonian-speaking population (both males and females) are more likely to interact with other Estonian-speaking individuals of the same gender. Further to ensure the quality of this dataset, we compare the CDR data features with publicly available Estonian census datasets. We observe that the CDR dataset is indeed a good representative of the Estonian population, which indicates that the findings of this study reasonably reflect the reality of gender segregation in the Estonian Landscape.

Evolution of loss due to event of undetermined intent among the Moscow working-age population in the 2000s

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (Special Issue) ◽  
Author(s):  
Semyonova V. G. ◽  
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Ivanova A. E. ◽  
Sabgayda T. P. ◽  
Zubko A. V. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Undetermined Intent ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Working Age Population

Population Policies in Turkey and Demographic Changes on a Social Map

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Murat Yucesahin ◽  
Tuğba Adalı ◽  
A Sinan Türkyılmaz
Keyword(s):  
Population Policy ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Demographic Changes ◽  
Demographic Transitions ◽  
Population Policies ◽  
Demographic Indicators ◽  
The Social ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Low Levels

Compared to its past structure, Turkey is now a country with low levels of fertility and mortality. This junction that Turkey now has reached is associated with a number of risks, such as an ageing population, and a decreasing working-age population. The antinatalist policy era of Turkey was followed by a period of maintenance, yet the recent demographic changes formed the basis of a pronatalist population policy from the government’s view. This study discusses the link between demographic change and population policies in Turkey. It further aims to position Turkey spatially in relation to selected countries that are in various stages of their demographic transitions with different population policies, using a multidimensional scaling approach with data on 25 selected countries from the UN. The analysis is based on a 34-year period, 1975-2009, so as to better demonstrate Turkey’s international position on a social map, past and present. Our findings suggest that Turkey’s position on the social map shifted towards developed countries over time in terms of demographic indicators and population policies. 

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