Essays about: "youth labour market"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 26 essays containing the words youth labour market.

  1. 1. Young voices from a precarious Japan : A qualitative study on young educated women’s experiences of their life situations and perception of the future in Japan

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Lipikar Narayaem Lindman; [2021]
    Keywords : young women; precariousness; vulnerability; Japan; critical discursive psychology; interpretative repertoires; subject positions; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Recent generations of Japanese youth face a diminished and precarious labour market and are pushed to the anxious margins of the society. Many are feeling less secure about the future and this precarisation is disproportionately affecting women. READ MORE

  3. 2. Quests for knowledge and social mobility : Vocational and on-the-job-training as navigational tactics in the urban labour market of Sierra Leone

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Bim Kilje; [2021]
    Keywords : On-The-Job training; OTJ; apprenticeship; Technical and Vocational Education and Training; TVET; Sierra Leone; urban; labour market; tailoring; trading; practice theory; social mobility; moral education; youth; unemployment; livelihood; informal sector;

    Abstract : This ethnographic study investigates the experiences of those learning tailoring and trading in Freetown, Sierra Leone via apprenticeships, other on-the-job training or Technical and Vocational Education and Training programs (TVET). I examine these forms of occupational training by investigating the practices underway, how knowledge transmission occurs, as well as why learners engage with and what they get out of these activities. READ MORE

  4. 3. YOUTH UNIONISATION IN DECLINE Increasing negative attitudes towards the union or a growing involuntary structural individualism?

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Charles Jeganeh; [2020-09-21]
    Keywords : Union coverage declines; youth’s attitudes towards the union; structural labour market changes; involuntary structural individualism; mixed-methods nested analysis approach;

    Abstract : Sweden has in the past years experienced union coverage declines, particularly amongst young individuals aged 16-24. Previous studies indicates conflicting results regarding the relationship between the youth’s attitudes towards the union and their unionisation outcome. READ MORE

  5. 4. The contested implementation of the dual formation in Costa Rica – A model with potential to tackle labour market imperfections?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Juliane Koch; [2020]
    Keywords : Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Costa Rica is one of Latin America’s pioneers in terms of steady economic growth, environmental protection, and educational spending. Yet behind this general perception, the country faces structural problems, like high inequality levels and sky-rocketing youth unemployment, indicating rather exclusive development pattern. READ MORE

  6. 5. "Stuck in Hel Joseon"

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Ella Holttinen; [2020]
    Keywords : South Korea; Hel Joseon; millennials; compressed modernity; Confucianism; neoliberalism; human capital; achievement society; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : South Korea is well known for its development miracle: the nation has managed to develop from the state of extreme poverty to the World´s 12th largest economies in a period of five decades. However, the negative consequences and side effects of this rapid growth, and issues of the contemporary Korean society has been less discussed, especially from the perspective of the Korean youth. READ MORE