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Formale Qualifikation gilt als zentrale Voraussetzung für Beschäftigungsfähigkeit. Anhand von Erwerbsverläufen von gering qualifizierten Arbeitskräften in der Schweiz untersucht dieser Beitrag Beschäftigungsfähigkeit als dynamische Wechselwirkung zwischen Orientierungen und Erwerbshandeln des Subjekts und institutionellen Regulierungen und Praktiken von Betrieben, Branchen und Sozialstaat. Die Analyse beruht auf qualitativen Interviews mit Arbeitskräften, Betrieben und Personalvermittlern. Die Mehrheit der befragten Arbeitskräfte war ein- oder mehrmals arbeitslos, aber nur ein Drittel der Erwerbsverläufe war insgesamt prekär. Vielmehr waren stabile Verläufe am häufigsten, und es gab auch Aufstiegskarrieren. Branche, betriebliche Personalstrategien und außerberufliche Faktoren erwiesen sich als ebenso entscheidend für die Beschäftigungsfähigkeit wie individuelles Erwerbshandeln und Bildungsbemühungen. Formal occupational qualification is regarded as a key factor of employability. Using employment trajectories of low-skilled workers in Switzerland this paper analyses employability as a dynamic interaction between individual orientations and strategies on the one hand, and institutional regulations and practices of firms, industry sector and the welfare state on the other hand. The empirical database consists of qualitative interviews with low-skilled workers, employers and labour market intermediaries. The majority of the 39 low-skilled workers experienced one or more unemployment spells. Yet, only a third of the employment trajectories were precarious. Rather, stable trajectories formed the largest group and there were also upward careers. Employers' personnel strategies and extra-occupational personal factors (e.g., family or health) proved just as decisive for the development or erosion of employability as individual educational and training efforts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By international comparison, in Germany little research is being conducted on teaching formats that promote employability. This study makes a contribution to that field. 429 students at a German university were asked about their self-assessed employability using the Career Resources Questionnaire (CRQ). The results of those who had not participated in Careers Service events were compared with those of Careers Service participants. For the factors "job market knowledge", "networking", "career information gathering", and "continuous learning", participants of Careers Service seminars showed significantly higher levels of employability than non-participants. Contrary to the assumption, the scores for "motivation" and "soft skills" were not significantly higher. In this context, the influence of perceived employability and the question of how employability-promoting competences can be actively maintained are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Trotz gründlicher Standards im Arbeitsschutz gibt es Tätigkeiten, die durch sehr hohe Belastungen und Beanspruchungen gekennzeichnet sind und häufig nicht bis zum Renteneintrittsalter leistungsfähig ausgeübt werden können. Das TErrA-Projekt setzt hier an und hat mit dem Instrument „Überbetrieblicher Tätigkeitswechsel" ein neues Präventionskonzept entwickelt, das auf die Passung von (neuen) Arbeitsanforderungen mit der Gesundheit, der Motivation, und Qualifikation der Beschäftigten ausgerichtet ist. Despite high standards of occupational health and safety measures, there are professional job-activities that are characterised by very high stresses and strains and often cannot be performed until retirement age. This is where the TErrA project comes in. We have developed a new prevention concept with the approach of inter-company job changes. It is oriented towards matching (new) job requirements with health as well as with motivation and qualification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Since the inception of the European Employment Strategy in 1997, individualized employment support has been a key priority of the European Union and its Member States. Nevertheless, empirical research on the delivery of individualized services for the unemployed is still underdeveloped. In this article, we explore how local employment agencies in three European cities tailor counselling and services to jobseekers' individual needs. We find that limited service budgets and underdeveloped organizational interfaces with social service providers tend to constrain the substantive individualization of services in practice, which works in the disfavour of vulnerable jobseekers. Individualized counselling is more widespread, at least for selected target groups. However, organizational capacities for offering individualized problem assessment and advice vary considerably across "worlds of individualization" in Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The United Kingdom, as an exemplar liberal welfare state, has been characterized as in the vanguard of "work‐first" activation – deploying high levels of compulsion and standardized employability services that seek to move people from welfare to work as quickly as possible. However, despite the extension of welfare conditionality to excluded groups such as lone parents, government‐led, work‐first employability programmes have often proved ineffective at assisting the most vulnerable to escape poverty or even just to progress in the labour market. We argue that alternative approaches, defined by co‐production and social innovation, have the potential to be more successful. We draw on a study of local services targeting lone parents led by third sector–public sector partnerships in five localities in Scotland. Our research identifies a link between programme governance and management (defined by co‐governance and collaborative partnership‐working) and co‐produced street‐level services that deliver benefits in terms of social innovation and employability. We draw on 90 interviews with lone parents, and more than 100 interviews with delivery stakeholders and street‐level workers, to identify factors associated with positive social and employability outcomes. The article concludes by identifying potential lessons for the governance and delivery of future services targeting vulnerable groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To increase the chances of integrating youth into labour markets in contemporary European knowledge societies, many policy schemes are geared towards investing in youth's human capital. Since apprenticeship systems are assumed to ease school‐to‐work transitions, this seems a particularly promising avenue. However, research highlights that social policies often do not reach the most disadvantaged members of society. The aim of this article is to shed light on the reasons and mechanisms causing this phenomenon, called the Matthew effect, through a single, embedded case study of a vocational education and training programme for disadvantaged youth in Switzerland. The findings highlight cream‐skimming practices as a coping strategy enabling frontline workers to satisfy strict assessment criteria. A budgetary allocation driven politico‐administrative logic promotes such practices as a means to generate solid results, so as to safeguard political – and thus financial – support. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Entwickelte Wohlfahrtsstaaten stehen aktuell vor schwierigen demografischen, ökonomischen und finanziellen Herausforderungen. Ein vielfach vorgeschlagener Weg, um mit diesen Herausforderungen umzugehen, ist die Etablierung von Sozialinvestitionsstaaten. Wiewohl diese Option zur Reformierung traditioneller Wohlfahrtsstaaten generell positiv rezipiert wird, bleibt unklar, was Sozialinvestitionen genau sind. Aufgrund divergierender Abgrenzungen kommen empirische Studien zur Entwicklung von Sozialinvestitionen zu mitunter unterschiedlichen Ergebnissen. In diesem Artikel schlagen wir eine Konzeptualisierung von Sozialinvestitionen vor, die wir aus der ökonomischen Humankapitaltheorie ableiten. In diesem Sinn definieren wir sozialpolitische Maßnahmen, welche die Beschäftigungsfähigkeit von Personen erhöhen (wollen), Menschen nachhaltig in den Erwerbsarbeitsmarkt integrieren (wollen) und/oder in das Humankapital von (zukünftigen) Arbeitskräften investieren (wollen), als sozialinvestive Maßnahmen. Wir zeigen Ähnlichkeiten und Unterschiede unseres relativ engen Abgrenzungsvorschlags mit in der Literatur bislang verwendeten Konzeptualisierungen auf und leiten auf dieser Basis Stärken und Schwächen unseres Ansatzes ab. A variety of different challenges threatens the success and sustainability of developed welfare states. An often-proposed strategy of tackling demographic, economic or financial challenges is transforming traditional social security states into social investment states. Despite a positive reception of this reform option it remains unclear, which social policies qualify as social investment policies. Due to different interpretations, empirical analyses have led to contradicting results. In this paper, we propose a conceptualization that derives from economic human capital theory. Only social policy measures that (attempt to) enhance the employability of people, integrate people sustainably into the paid labour market and/or invest in human capital are regarded as social investment measures. We illustrate strengths and weaknesses of this narrow conceptualization of social investment measures as compared to those used in empirical analyses so far. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Der Beitrag stellt die Praktikumsbegleitveranstaltung als besonderes Format im BA-Studiengang der Soziologie für die Unterstützung von individuellen Strategien zur Karriereplanung im Sinne der Employability vor. Die Reflexion fachlicher und überfachlicher Kompetenzen kann dazu beitragen, dass individuelle Kompetenzprofile von Studierenden selbst formuliert und entsprechend vielfältige Beschäftigungsperspektiven entdeckt werden. Insbesondere die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen für Lehrende werden diskutiert. Am Beispiel des Veranstaltungsformats werden inhaltliche und didaktische Möglichkeiten zur Gestaltung kompetenzorientierter Lehre aufgezeigt. 19.10.2012 | Karolina Furmanczyk, Dörte Husmann & Hannah Mormann (Bielefeld)

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Baum S., Bill A. and Mitchell W. F. Employability and labour under-utilization in non-metropolitan labour markets, Regional Studies. This paper addresses labour under-utilization and considers the factors that are associated with under-utilization risk of individuals embedded in diverse non-metropolitan labour market regions. Taking survey and census data for Australian non-metropolitan regions, this paper applies a broad employability framework that presents the risk of under-utilization as a function of individual characteristics, personal circumstances, and labour market characteristics. The analysis finds that under-utilization is associated with individual characteristics and circumstances plus local labour market conditions. The findings indicate that policy designed to address labour under-utilization needs to focus on the outcomes of a multilevel framework in order to be effective. [image omitted] Baum S., Bill A. et Mitchell W. F... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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