Perceptions of employability among London’s low-paid: ‘Self-determination’ or ethnicity?

Richard Croucher, Sumeetra Ramakrishnan, Marian Rizov and Diana Benzinger

EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, 2015, vol. 39, issue 1, 109-130

Abstract: We investigate how ethnicity, gender and other characteristics affect low-paid workers’ perceptions of their employability in London’s labour market, examining self-efficacy, ethnic and dual labour market theories. We find that perceptions vary considerably, both between genders and ethnicities and in the extent to which they are ‘justified’ by human capital attributes. Optimism varies between genders and ethnic groups but individuals’ perceptions vary to an even greater extent within genders and ethnic groups. Hence, individual-level ‘self-determination’ explanations of these perceptions appear to have greatest explanatory power in this specific context though ethnic theories also have utility.

Keywords: Diversity; dual labour market; employability; human capital; labour economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J17 J24 J28 J71 J82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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