Do the Poor Wake Up Quickly? A Study of Low Pay and Muted Horizons

Thozhur, Sumeetra M.; Riley, Michael; Szivas, Edit

doi:10.1080/02642060601122660

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“…Less employable individuals are more likely to occupy jobs in the secondary labour market (Berntson et al, 2006;Mäkikangas, De Cuyper, Mauno, & Kinnunen, 2013;Spurk, Kaufeld, Meinecke, & Ebner, 2016) that leave scars in terms of future employability (Reeskens & Van Oorschot, 2012). Furthermore, perceptions of being a low status member may become internalised so that individuals ultimately lose confidence and see few employment prospects (Thozhur, Riley, & Szivas, 2007). In all, the argument is that those who are employable attract more investments and become even more employable, and vice versa for the less employable, thereby signalling a Matthew effect (BS3.3).…”

Section: Blind Spot 3: Employability Is Polarisingmentioning

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The winner takes it all, the loser has to fall: Provoking the agency perspective in employability research

Forrier

Cuyper

Akkermans

2018

Human Res Mgmt Journal

128

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In this paper, we provoke the strong focus on personal agency in employability research. We counter three dominant assumptions in the literature, namely, (a) that employability is an individual asset, (b) that employability is owned by the individual, and (c) that employability leads to positive outcomes. A key observation is that the three dominant theories that are being used in employability studies, namely, human capital theory, conservation of resources theory, and social exchange theory, also question these core agency assumptions that form the basis of those studies. Based on these theories, we identify three blind spots in employability research: Employability is (a) contextual, (b) relational, and (3) polarising. Taken together, we make the case that the agency perspective overlooks a potential dark side of employability: The winner takes it all, the loser has to fall. We outline a future research agenda on this potential dark side of employability.

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Section: Blind Spot 3: Employability Is Polarisingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The winner takes it all, the loser has to fall: Provoking the agency perspective in employability research

Forrier

Cuyper

Akkermans

2018

Human Res Mgmt Journal

128

153

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“…Research examining perceived job opportunities must examine the availability of jobs as perceived by the employee, the starting point for which is their definition of a better job. As Thozur et al (2007) observe, the notion of a ‘better job’ will allow respondents to delineate horizons and to indirectly operationalize perceived opportunities.…”

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“…Such a mindset leads individuals to overly-negative assessments of the opportunities available to them. Thozhur et al (2007) contend that exogenous factors, such as low pay and poor labour market positions, become internalized into negative perspectives on employment and opportunity reinforced by long hours and hard work. We therefore speculate that workers in the labour market’s secondary segment may in time become (to borrow the term from analysts of behaviour in unemployment: Flaim, 1984) ‘discouraged’ and pessimistic, underestimating their human capital.…”

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Perceptions of employability among London’s low-paid: ‘Self-determination’ or ethnicity?

Croucher

Ramakrishnan

Rizov

et al. 2015

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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This article investigates how ethnicity, gender and other characteristics affect low-paid workers' perceptions of their employability in London's labour market, examining self-efficacy, ethnic and dual labour market theories. The authors find that perceptions vary considerably, both between genders and ethnicities and in the extent to which they are 'justified' by human capital attributes. Optimism varies between genders and ethnic groups but individuals' perceptions vary to an even greater extent within genders and ethnic groups. Hence, individual-level 'self-determination' explanations of these perceptions appear to have greatest explanatory power in this specific context, although ethnic theories also have utility.

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“…Door hun kwetsbare situatie op de West-Europese arbeidsmarkt, krijgen Midden-en Oost-Europese free movers vaak te maken met precaire werkomstandigheden, zoals blijkt uit eerder onderzoek in de horeca (Irimiás & Michalkó, 2016;Rydzik, Pritchard, Morgan, & Sedgley, 2017), in de landbouw (Kroon & Paauwe, 2014;Rye & Andrzejewska, 2010;Wiesböck, 2016) en in huishoudens (Anderson, 2007;Van Walsum, 2011). Als precaire werkomstandigheden worden verinnerlijkt, kunnen deze bijdragen aan een negatief perspectief op werk en inzetbaarheid (Thozhur, Riley, & Szivas, 2007).…”

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De invloed van werkomstandigheden in Nederlandse distributiecentra op inzetbaarheidsovertuigingen van Hongaarse free movers

Kerti¹,

Kroon²

2020

Tijdschrift Voor Arbeidsvraagstukken

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Bij hun transitie naar de arbeidsmarkt van West-Europese EU-lidstaten komen Midden- en Oost-Europese free movers vaak terecht in laagbetaalde banen met precaire werkomstandigheden. Centraal in dit onderzoek staat de vraag hoe Hongaarse free movers hun inzetbaarheid beleven in de context van hun levensloop, hun opleiding, hun ervaringen in Nederland en de werkomstandigheden in Nederlandse distributiecentra. Uit analyse van 18 fenomenologische interviews blijkt dat Hongaarse free movers vaak te maken hebben met precaire werkomstandigheden in distributiecentra, die leiden tot de onmogelijkheid om Nederlands te leren, uitputting van energiereserves en een onzekere financiële situatie. Vaak valt dit samen met een levensloop die wordt gekenmerkt door verlieservaringen, waardoor ook werknemers met een voltooide vervolgopleiding en relevante werkervaring de overtuiging missen dat zij een baan zullen vinden die zij werkelijk ambiëren. Deze bevinding is in overeenstemming met de conservation of resources theory, die stelt dat het verlies van hulpbronnen leidt tot stress en onzekerheid, wat proactief gedrag dat nodig is voor het verbeteren van een positie op de arbeidsmarkt hindert.

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Do the Poor Wake Up Quickly? A Study of Low Pay and Muted Horizons

Cited by 6 publications

References 21 publications

The winner takes it all, the loser has to fall: Provoking the agency perspective in employability research

The winner takes it all, the loser has to fall: Provoking the agency perspective in employability research

Perceptions of employability among London’s low-paid: ‘Self-determination’ or ethnicity?

De invloed van werkomstandigheden in Nederlandse distributiecentra op inzetbaarheidsovertuigingen van Hongaarse free movers

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