Young workers as a social and professional group

New Social Workers Group

Young workers’ professional experience and access to high-skill jobs

The implications of on-the-job search and learning-by-doing of young workers are studied in a search-matching model. The labor market is segmented in two submarkets: that of beginning workers earning minimum wage, and that of experienced workers offering higher wages. After a long enough employment spell, beginners can search for a better paid job in the experienced submarket. Unemployment bene...

Professional-Bureaucratic Conflict and Intraorganizational Powerlessness among Social Workers

Conflict Between Professional Ethics and Practice Demands: Social Workers’ Perceptions

This study examined the degree to which social workers perceived experiencing ethical conflicts in the contexts of their practice environments. A sample of 376 NASW members filled out questionnaires to report on a Likert scale the degree to which eight vignettes describing practice situations presented a value conflict, were frequent, and were inevitable. Findings indicated that respondents ten...

Professional Formation as Social Movement

Could current efforts to reshape legal education and give more emphasis to professional identity formation be harbingers of a developing social movement in higher education? I want to argue that they should be seen that way. Furthermore, I want to suggest that conceptualizing those efforts as a social movement helps to explain why recent workshops on the formation of student professional identi...