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Once You Are In You Might Need to Get Out: Adaptation and Adaptability in Volatile Labor Markets—the Case of Musical Actors

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  • Ibert, Oliver
  • Schmidt, Suntje

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The labor market for musical actors is very challenging for several reasons. On the one hand, it is difficult to acquire a position: qualification requirements are high, competition is fierce and reputation is difficult to build up. On the other hand, once in it is often necessary to get out: once being in, market demand for roles with a stage age above 45 drops dramatically and it becomes increasingly hard to stay healthy due to the threefold exposure to bodily strains of acting, dancing and singing. This labor market thus presents potentially interesting situations, in which the meaning of the concept resilience—in the sense of valuing preservation—can change fundamentally. While at the beginning of a career, the main challenge is often to adapt to market requirements, in the second half of a career it becomes increasingly important to become adaptable to a broader spectrum of opportunities, including exit scenarios. The paper generates empirically grounded ideal-typical accounts of the meaning of adaptation and adaptability for musical actors with a focus on the actors’ networking strategies, their professional identities, and the corresponding ways of perceiving and creating spaces.

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  • Ibert, Oliver & Schmidt, Suntje, 2014. "Once You Are In You Might Need to Get Out: Adaptation and Adaptability in Volatile Labor Markets—the Case of Musical Actors," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 3(1), pages 1-23.
  • Handle: RePEc:zbw:espost:215487
    DOI: 10.3390/socsci3010001
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    1. Męczyński Michał, 2016. "Personal Networks on the Labour Market: Who Finds a Job in the Creative Sector in Poznań?," Quaestiones Geographicae, Sciendo, vol. 35(4), pages 133-143, December.
    2. Xiaohui Hu & Robert Hassink, 2017. "Exploring adaptation and adaptability in uneven economic resilience: a tale of two Chinese mining regions," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 10(3), pages 527-541.
    3. Müller, Felix-Claus, 2015. "Innovative Unternehmer als raumwirksame Schlüsselfiguren: Befunde aus der Beobachtung von Innovationsprozessen in der Biotechnologie," IRS Working Papers 54, Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS).
    4. Xiaohui Hu & Robert Hassink, 2015. "Overcoming the Dualism between Adaptation and Adaptability in Regional Economic Resilience," Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) 1533, Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography, revised Sep 2015.

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