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The Higher Educated, the Lower Paid: The Fixed-Term Wage Penalty within Highly Educated Workers in Italy
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Brunetti, Irene; Cirillo, Valeria; Ferri, Valentina – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
This paper explores the temporary-permanent wage gap experienced by Italian graduate workers. To evaluate the wage gap along the entire wage distribution and account for heterogeneous effects of temporary employment, we apply the Recentered Influence Function (RIF) regression approach. The results suggest that the monthly net wage earned by…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Foreign Countries, Wages, Salary Wage Differentials
Lifeguard Turnover in Aquatic and Recreation Centres: Perspectives from Managers
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Butson, Michael; Tower, John; Schwarz, Eric C. – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2021
Employee turnover is the loss of talent in the workforce. High employee turnover is expensive and disruptive. Young employees are more likely to leave one job for a better one and are often less attached to an organisation while they are completing their education. The aquatics industry has been described as being in a crisis, experiencing…
Descriptors: Aquatic Sports, Recreational Facilities, Employer Attitudes, Labor Turnover
The Precarious Work of English Language Teaching in Canada
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Breshears, Sherry – TESL Canada Journal, 2019
This article draws from the concept of precarious employment to better understand the working conditions of teachers of adult English as an additional language (EAL) learners in Canada. I examine previously published research on the employment situations of this group of educators, drawing from data that have been gathered using interviews and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Adult Education
Cohort and Education as Predictors of Temporary Employment, and Their Relation to Low Wages and Socioeconomic Classification for Young People in Sweden
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Reichenberg, Olof – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
The purpose of my paper is to describe and explain the probability of staying in temporary work for young people (age 16-27) in Sweden between 1992 and 2011 and its relation to socioeconomic outcomes (low socioeconomic classification and wage). I used panel data from the Swedish Labour Force Survey (LFS) and the longitudinal integration database…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Predictor Variables, Temporary Employment, Wages
Higher Education in Non-Standard Wage Contracts
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Rosti, Luisa; Chelli, Francesco – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to verify whether higher education increases the likelihood of young Italian workers moving from non-standard to standard wage contracts. Design/methodology/approach: The authors exploit a data set on labour market flows, produced by the Italian National Statistical Office, by interviewing about 85,000…
Descriptors: Wages, Higher Education, Labor Market, Graduates
Working Time in Comparative Perspective. Volume I: Patterns, Trends, and the Policy Implications for Earnings Inequality and Unemployment.
Wong, Ging, Ed.; Picot, Garnett, Ed. – 2001
This is the first of two volumes of selected papers presented at the 1996 conference on "Changes in Working Time in Canada and the United States." Eleven chapters focus on weekly hours worked by individuals, including the recent changes in the distribution of weekly working time in Canada and the U.S., implications of the changing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Developed Nations, Employment, Employment Level