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Sharone, Ofer – Social Forces, 2013
This article provides a new account of American job seekers' individualized understandings of their labor-market difficulties, and more broadly, of how structural conditions shape subjective responses. Unemployed white-collar workers in the U.S. tend to interpret their labor market difficulties as reflecting flaws in themselves, while Israelis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, White Collar Occupations, Social Support Groups, Interviews
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Kulik, Liat – Journal of Career Assessment, 2001
In a study of 225 Israeli young adults applying for their first job, women were more likely to reject jobs due to work conditions, family considerations, or masculine sex-typing. Men rejected jobs only because of feminine sex-typing. Women had greater nonfinancial commitment to work. Men were more stigmatized by unemployment. There were no…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Applicants, Job Search Methods, Sex Differences
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Tziner, Aharon; Vered, Efrat; Ophir, Limor – Journal of Career Assessment, 2004
This study examined the connection between personality traits (extraversion, conscientiousness, openness) and two strategies for job search: networking (family, friends, etc.) and general search (want ads, employment agencies), making use of Costa and McCrae's five-factor model of personality dimensions. The relations between the two strategies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, College Graduates, Unemployment