Student employment: social differentials and field-specific developments in higher education

Jacob, Marita; Gerth, Maria; Weiss, Felix

doi:10.1080/13639080.2017.1395513

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“…low wages, long working hours or less flexibility (e.g. Jacob et al 2018). As such, job conditions are more likely to have a negative impact on academic success in higher education (Creed et al 2015); they might be an important but previously overlooked dimension of educational inequality.…”

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“…As a consequence, we underestimate overall student employment and we may also underestimate social differences in our analyses, assuming that university jobs can be counted as high-quality jobs with high qualification-related returns. Furthermore, recent research indicates that there are no social inequalities in access to these jobs (Jacob et al 2018).…”

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“…In many countries, enrolment in higher education is still socially selective 1 . With increasing shares of a cohort enrolling into higher education and a more heterogeneous student population in higher education, more and more scholars have pointed to important "qualitative" inequalities among university students, such as combining education with work (for Germany see for example Jacob et al 2018; for the US see Scott-Clayton 2012; Weiss and Roksa 2016). In many countries, students spend a considerable amount of time working in parallel to their studies.…”

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Social Inequalities in Student Employment and the Local Labour Market

Jacob

Gerth²,

Weiss

2020

Köln Z Soziol

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This article examines class-specific employment patterns among students in Germany, taking into account how different local labour market conditions affect the quantity and quality of jobs available to students. We argue that the availability of jobs affects social inequalities in student employment. In particular, we expect a stronger correlation between, on the one hand, the rate and quality of student employment and, on the other hand, students' socioeconomic background in towns with a large pool of student labour, due to more competition for (good) jobs. Analysing data from German student surveys, we find that employment rates do not differ by social class background, but there are differences in the quality of their employment in terms of the fit between the job and the field of study. While we find that local labour market conditions affect student employment at a general level, in contrast to our expectation, tighter labour market conditions seem to involve little or no disadvantage for students from less privileged social backgrounds. Zusammenfassung Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Abhängigkeit der Studierendenerwerbstätigkeit von der elterlichen sozialen Klasse in Deutschland. Besonderes Augenmerk gilt hierbei den lokalen Arbeitsmarktbedingungen und ihrem Einfluss auf den Umfang und auf die Qualität der Erwerbstätigkeit von Studierenden. Wir erwarten, dass sich die Verfügbarkeit von Stellen auf die soziale Ungleichheit in der Erwerbsarbeit auswirkt. Insbesondere gehen wir davon aus, dass der Zusammenhang zwischen der sozialen Herkunft mit dem Umfang und mit der Qualität von Erwerbsarbeit höher korreliert ist in Kontexten mit einem hohen Studierendenanteil, da hier die Konkurrenz um (gute) Stellen intensiver sein sollte. Auf Basis der Daten des Konstanzer Studierendensurveys finden wir keine Unterschiede nach sozialer Herkunft in der Häufigkeit der Erwerbstätigkeit, allerdings in der Qualität der Arbeit gemessen mit der Frage, ob sie einen inhaltlichen Zusammenhang mit dem Studium hat. Mit Hinblick auf die lokalen Arbeitsmarktbedingungen finden wir zwar einen Einfluss auf die Erwerbstätigkeit im Allgemeinen, verschärfte Wettbewerbsbedingungen scheinen entgegen unserer Erwartungen aber kein Nachteil für Studierende mit einem nichtprivilegierten sozialen Hintergrund zu sein. Schlüsselwörter Hochschulbildung · Studierendenerwerbstätigkeit · Soziale Herkunft · Arbeitsmarkt · Bildungsungleichheit K

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2020

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“…This ethical point of departure promotes the interpretation that mismatch in relation to origin is not caused by an inherent difference between "Danish" and "non-Danish" graduates expressing a difference in kind or ability in an inherent sense. Rather, it promotes an interpretation of a divergence in their behavioural performance at the labour market, whether this is due to different structural circumstances (which may affect how employers regard their behaviour) or due to different priorities of graduates from these different groups (as indicated for example in the study by Jacob, Gerth, & Weiss, 2018, who studied the behaviours of different social groups in relation to graduate employability and explained these behaviours with different motivational structures). Thereby, employability becomes a phenomenon that is deeply entangled with pre-conditioned notions of origin (and other social categories), a phenomenon that in some interpretations may even strengthen a category such as "immigrant or descendant" by adding yet another layer of dis-ability or self-inflicted misery to it (Dixon-Román, 2017: 435).…”

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The configurative agency of metrics in education: a research agenda involving a different engagement with data

Madsen

2019

Journal of Education Policy

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The increased use of quantitative education data is often regarded by scholars as evidence of the emergence of'governing by numbers'. These scholars ascribe major stakeholders such as the OECD and nation states agency as they produce, distribute and consume data, and respond to these with policy and management initiatives. This paper argues that metrics themselves have a configurative agency that affects education in terms of educational ideas and designs. The paper illustrates this point by analysing two cases of graduate employability metrics, each of which configures education differently, and discusses how the configurative agency of metrics can become the focal point of a different research agenda using distinct analytical concepts drawn from the sociology of quantification and new materialism. The paper concludes that such a research agenda can enable actors involved in the design and development of education to enter into a professional dialogue and engagement with education data, rather than merely dismissing it.

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“…Student employment has a long-standing tradition (Jacob et al, 2018;Body et al, 2014). But it was not very popular in the period of real socialism dominated by full employment and full-time jobs.…”

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Value of work in the experience of the young generation of Visegrad countries

Swadźba¹,

Hirschler²

2019

Economics &Amp; Sociology

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The paper discusses the issues of experience and value of work, one of the elements of economic awareness of the young generation-students from the Visegrad countries. The paper presents the concept of work and its value according to Ronald Inglehart's value system. An analysis was carried out based on empirical research conducted in April-May 2015 and November 2016 in higher education institutions in the V4 countries (Poland: Katowice, Slovakia: Nitra, Czech Republic: Olomouc/Ostrava, Hungary: Gödöllő). 1 In each country, the student groups were selected according to the auditor survey technique. The research covered Bachelor and Master students from four different types of studies: Economics, Management, Technical, Sciences, Medicine, Social Studies and Humanities. The resulting discussion concerns the work experience of the students in V4 countries and their statements concerning the value of work. A comparison will be made among the four national groups. In the "Discussion and Conclusion" part research questions are answered and a complex indicator of the value of work is constructed. The conclusion also contains a reference to Inglehart's theory and an answer concerning the question in which direction the values of work of the young generation in V4 countries are heading.

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Student employment: social differentials and field-specific developments in higher education

Cited by 14 publications

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Social Inequalities in Student Employment and the Local Labour Market

Social Inequalities in Student Employment and the Local Labour Market

The configurative agency of metrics in education: a research agenda involving a different engagement with data

Value of work in the experience of the young generation of Visegrad countries

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