Transmission of Work Attitudes and Values: Comparisons, Consequences, and Implications

Kraaykamp, Gerbert; Cemalcılar, Zeynep; Tosun, Jale

doi:10.1177/0002716219831947

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“…The analysis of the LFS allows us to observe the intergenerational transmission of the failure or success of young people in relation to the labor market: young people whose parents (father) have a lower education level and who come from large families have a higher risk of being NEETs. The results of our analysis are in agreement with other studies on the European level that examined the effect of both maternal and paternal employment on the success or failure of their children in the labor market (Berloffa et al, 2015;Cemalcilar et al, 2019;Kraaykamp et al, 2019;McDowell, 2014). Controlling for other variables (education, social environment), researchers found that the effect of parental employment (both mother and father) increases the likelihood of their sons and daughters getting a job.…”

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School-Work-Transition of NEETS: A Comparative Analysis of European Countries

2021

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This study investigates the connection between the reasons why some young people end their education without attaining a university degree and the effect of this decision on the probability of becoming a NEET in a set of European countries. Young people face the highest degree of disadvantage in the Mediterranean and East European countries, whereas in Continental European countries the school-to-work transition is smooth. We use the ad hoc module of the 2016 Labour Force Survey (LFS) and focus on young people aged 15 to 24. Our analysis reveals a positive relationship between the decision to drop out of education for health or family reasons and the probability of becoming a NEET. Conversely, when the reason for not completing university education is the desire to start working, and when the individuals who dropped out of university education gathered work experience during this period, the probability of becoming a NEET decreases significantly.

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School-Work-Transition of NEETS: A Comparative Analysis of European Countries

2021

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“…Following existing research in this area, we distinguish between intrinsic and extrinsic work values (Kalleberg & Marsden, 2019;Kraaykamp et al, 2019). The ESS contains questions for both types of work values.…”

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Security or autonomy? A comparative analysis of work values and labor market policies in different European welfare states

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2021

Int J Soc Welfare

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This paper analyzes whether and how work values differ between European Welfare states and change over time. We proceed in three steps: First, we show that—despite EU harmonization endeavors, for example, via the Europe 2020 strategy—work values still vary substantially between European countries and welfare regimes. Second, by analyzing data from the European Social Survey 2004 and 2010, we show how labor market policies, such as active and passive labor market policies, are associated with work values and how overall levels of work values changed over this period. Third, we discuss potential implications of the heterogeneity of work values for national as well as European labor market policy making. Altogether we are able to show that work values are substantially driven by the economic structure of a country and its labor market policy making. Key Practitioner Message Work values vary substantially between European countries and welfare regimes. The change of work values is substantially driven by welfare state structures (both labor market policies implemented and industry share). Both European and national labor market policy making has to account for these different work values to be successful.

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“…Values are internalized social representations or moral beliefs that people call on to rationalize their actions (Oyserman 2002). Work values, more specifically, refer to individuals’ attitudes about how important work is and whether individuals pursue tangible or intangible rewards in their jobs (see Kraaykamp, Cemalcilar, and Tosun, this volume). Empirical research in the social sciences has shown that work values predict a variety of work-related outcomes, including vocational aspirations, career choices, decision-making processes such as to look for a job, or to get training, job selection, as well as job satisfaction (e.g., Ros, Schwartz, and Surkiss 1999).…”

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Gendered Intergenerational Transmission of Work Values? A Country Comparison

Cemalcılar¹,

Jensen²,

Tosun³

2019

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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In this study, we examine two research questions: Are the work values of young people determined by the work values of their parents? Is the transmission of work values conditioned by the young adults’ gender? We use original survey data for respondents aged 18–35 and their parents in Denmark, Germany, Turkey, and the UK to explore these questions. Our findings reveal a robust pattern: in all four countries and for all four types of work values we measure, young adults’ work values are strongly influenced by their parents’ work values. We also find a gender effect among German respondents: work plays a more central role in the lives of young men than in the lives of young women. Gender helps to explain attitudes toward female labor force participation in all of the countries we studied, and we find no evidence that gender conditions the effect of the intergenerational transmission of work values except for in the UK, where gender does condition the effect of family attitudes on young peoples’ extrinsic work values and their views on work centrality.

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Transmission of Work Attitudes and Values: Comparisons, Consequences, and Implications

Cited by 24 publications

References 42 publications

School-Work-Transition of NEETS: A Comparative Analysis of European Countries

School-Work-Transition of NEETS: A Comparative Analysis of European Countries

Security or autonomy? A comparative analysis of work values and labor market policies in different European welfare states

Gendered Intergenerational Transmission of Work Values? A Country Comparison

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