In search of a job—But which one? How unemployed people revise their occupational expectations
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 11196902 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Didier Demazière (0000-0003-3466-8466, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) Sciences Po, Centre for the Sociology of Organizations Paris France, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2024 |
| Volumen | 58 |
| Número | 7 |
| Páginas | 1025-1041 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2024-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Social Policy and Administration (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0144-5596 • E-ISSN: 1467-9515 |
| Editorial | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/spol.13011 |
| OpenAlex | W4391605775 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 42 |
Conducting a job search implies the identification of a target—an intended job. However, this assumption has been little studied, and just two main conclusions have been drawn, namely: jobseekers have an incentive to adjust their targets to the jobs available, and returning to work tends to lead to occupational downgrading. This article explores how job search experiences shape and alter targets. Biographical interviews were conducted with 57 unemployed people registered with the French public employment service. Ultimately, all of them revise their occupational expectations as, faced with the uncertainties inherent to the job search and experiencing difficulties in reaching their priority targets, they try to adapt and define more realistic goals. Four contrasting processes of expectation revision are used to track these tensions between desirability and realism. In conclusion, we stress the following facts: that unemployed people are flexible and develop rationales in order to adapt to the labour market; that their experience of failure, alongside advice and beliefs arising in the course of the job search feed directly into these revisions, and that these revisions both vary in magnitude and reflect inequalities in the defining process of target jobs
Business · Economic growth · Economics · Identification (biology · Incentive · Inequality · Job analysis · Job satisfaction · Labour economics · Microeconomics · Order (exchange · Political science · Process (computing · Public relations · Realism · Service (business · Unemployment · Work (physics · Computer Science · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Marketing · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology
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| Altamente citado | No |