Overskilling, Job Insecurity, and Career Mobility

Overskilling, Job Insecurity and Career Mobility

Overskilling, Job Insecurity and Career Mobility This paper uses longitudinal data from Australia to examine the extent to which overskilling – the extent to which work-related skills and abilities are utilized in current employment – is a transitory phenomenon. The results suggest that while overskilled workers are much more likely to want to quit their current job, they are also relatively un...

Job mobility and wage mobility at the beginning of the working career

This piece of work is aimed at studying the rewards to job mobility and whether it is a proper tool to experience wage growth and escaping situations of low-paid jobs. The data-base used will be the European Community Household Panel Survey, from which a sample of young people (under 30 in 1994) from thirteen different countries has been drawn. The selected technique will be a fixed-effects mod...

The long arm of job insecurity: Its impact on career-specific parenting behaviors and youths' career self-efficacy

Article history: Received 18 July 2011 Available online 6 March 2012 Applying a multiple-mediator model, we examine the mediating effect of three types of career-specific parenting behaviors: lack of engagement, support, and interference, on the relationship between paternal job insecurity and youths' career self-efficacy. Data were collected from a sample of undergraduate students and their fa...

Job Insecurity and Future Labour Market Outcomes

Job Insecurity and Future Labour Market Outcomes This paper uses longitudinal survey data to test the degree to which measures of job insecurity are correlated with changes in labour market status. Three major findings are reported. First, the perceived probability of job loss is only weakly related to both exogenous job separations and subsequent transitions to unemployment and inactivity. Sec...

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