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

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  • Richard Croucher

    (Middlesex University, UK)

  • Sumeetra Ramakrishnan

    (Middlesex University, UK)

  • Marian Rizov

    (University of Lincoln, UK)

  • Diana Benzinger

    (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)

Abstract

This article investigates 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. The authors 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, although ethnic theories also have utility.

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  • Richard Croucher & Sumeetra Ramakrishnan & Marian Rizov & Diana Benzinger, 2018. "Perceptions of employability among London’s low-paid: ‘Self-determination’ or ethnicity?," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 39(1), pages 109-130, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:39:y:2018:i:1:p:109-130
    DOI: 10.1177/0143831X15609672
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