Intergenerational Educational Mobility and Identity: a French-Argentine Comparative Study

This study forms part of the author’s longstanding research regarding social, educational and professional mobility observed in Argentina across three generations, associated with the factor of Education and with the greater flow of immigrants in the last century. This research encompasses various smaller studies. Here we mention one, a French-Argentine comparative study in which we worked with PhDs from different institutions and different social science PhD programs. Our objective was: a) to analyze what factors (quantitative) and what reasons (qualitative) positively and negatively impacted professional pathways (career mobility); b) to observe the level of educational mobility present in families with PhDs, taking the issue from different paradigms (reproductionist/interactionist): University of elites? University of the masses? The methodology was both quantitative and qualitative, using semi-structured surveys (which included open-ended statements so respondents could expand); the hierarchical evocation technique and interviews. Results: a) we observed the intergenerational educational mobility of PhDs (quantitative-descriptive level); b) we understood some of the “reasons” and “sense” that underlie said mobility and that have either acted as driving forces or have not acted as driving forces of social and cultural-educational promotion (qualitative level). c) We found similar levels of intergenerational educational mobility for PhDs in France and Argentina (graduates of various PhD programs). This result is interesting in the face of well-held myths of educational “hypo mobility” , intergenerational drops in mobility, stagnation, a lack of educational/cultural promotion under “plafond” effects, or a saturation of degree holders, above all in developed countries. From the point of view of identity, this high level of intergenerational educational mobility impacted national, institutional and micro individual identity; three planes in sustained interaction using the author’s theory: The Three Dimensional Spiral of Sense ((2015 a and b).Fil: Aparicio, Miriam Teresita. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza; Argentin

Trajectories from public sector of research to private sector : an analysis using french data on young PhD graduates

The organisation of research is a powerful factor structuring the labour market for recent doctorate recipients. The queue for permanent research positions in the academic sector has created a specific labour market for young doctorates, characterised by a proliferation of postdoctoralprogrammes and fixed-term contracts. In that specific context, our paper deals with the way the young PhD graduates enter the labour market, the way they get a job as researcher in the private or public sector and how much the return of the job mobility from the public academic sector to the private sector is. Using a longitudinal survey provided by the Cereq, our results suggest that even if nearly the half of the cohort has a direct access to jobs in the research sector (private or public), 20% remain in trajectories dominated by under-qualifiedjobs or recurrent unemployment. Our empirical investigation show a negative or non significant returns of the job mobility from the public academic sector to the private sector.Marché du travail; Insertion professionnelle; Post Doctorant; Jeune; Mobilité professionnelle; France

Martinique’s Informal Sector

In 2008, Martinique’s informal sector accounted for 12,400 individuals, 9.9% of the Martinique’s total employment. Youth, retirees, men, women, the unemployed, inactives, those already employed in the formal sector, and many more make up the diverse informal sector population. Informal sector participation rates, however, have been declining in recent years; in 2002, the informal sector represented 13.2% of Martinique’s total employment (a decline of 3.3%).

Women’s Employment and Welfare Regimes: Globalization, Export Orientation and Social Policy in Europe and North America

A research paper that reviews material on women’s employment and the social policies that affect it; looks at options for women unable to work for pay; and lastly attempts to explain different national patterns of policy affecting women’s employment. Author concludes with thoughts about the ways in which women’s employment may lead to greater gender equality

Moonlighters: A Product of Deprivation or Aspiration?

Le double emploi (ou le fait de recevoir un revenu supplémentaire à côté d'un emploi principal) est communément reconnu comme un phénomène courant. Cependant, ses effets sur la santé, le bien-être et l'efficacité au travail des employés n'ont jamais été réellement approfondis. Certains travaux ont déjà suggéré que le double emploi était source de tension auprès des employés et de compromis quant à leur engagement au travail et leur fonction. D'autres discussions ont considéré ce phénomène comme la source de satisfaction légitime et bénéfique que ne peut fournir le travail principal. En réalité, de nombreuses compagnies dépendent de la disponibilité du double emploi provenant d'autres firmes et cela sans se soucier des résultats.Les résultats obtenus ici le furent à travers une enquête effectuée auprès d'employés manuels de six firmes industrielles en utilisant un questionnaire qu'ils devaient compléter. Les employés faisant double emploi furent automatiquement identifiés par le biais d'une question concernant les revenus additionnels.Le taux de double emploi qui s'est dégagé de l'étude fut de 15% soit trois fois supérieur à celui rapporté dans les statistiques gouvernementales. Les comparaisons entre tenants et non-tenants de double emploi ne révèlent aucune différence significative quant au besoin d'accomplissement sur le lieu du travail principal ou à l'extérieur, sur la santé mentale, la performance au travail, l'absentéisme ou la possible mobilité d'emploi. Des différences significatives se dégagent seulement quant à l'activité sociale volontaire et des préférences concernant des prévisions de travail plus flexibles, dans les deux cas favorisant ceux qui ont un double emploi.Les résultats démontrent le peu d'inquiétude au niveau de la direction des compagnies quant aux conséquences néfastes du travail à l'extérieur. Les raisons possibles à cela incluent la sélection naturelle des niveaux d'engagements extérieurs sans graves conséquences et le développement de la part des tenants de double emploi d'expériences supplémentaires les aidant à mieux s'organiser et à sauver temps et énergie. Les implications relatives à des études futures dans d'autres types d'organisation, de couches démographiques différentes sont également prises en considération.This study explores the nature of relationships between moonlighting and several dependent variables, such as need fulfillment in work and non-work, mental health, participation in voluntary organizations, job performance, absenteeism, anticipated turnover and flex-time and short work week preferences

Profil et devenir à 6 mois des stagiaires handicapés

French Language Document courtesy of CTNERHI.Profil_et_devenir__C3_A0_6_mois_des_stagiaires_handicap_C3_A9s.pdf: 72 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Extensive and Intensive Margins of Labour Supply: Working Hours in the US, UK and France

This paper documents the key stylised facts underlying the evolution of labour supply at the extensive and intensive margins in the last forty years in three countries: United-States, United-Kingdom and France. We develop a statistical decomposition that provides bounds on changes at the extensive and intensive margins. This decomposition is also shown to be coherent with the analysis of labour supply elasticities at these margins. We use detailed representative micro-datasets to examine the relative importance of the extensive and intensive margins in explaining the overall changes in total hours worked.labor supply, employment, hours of work