Predicting Perceived Employability: Human Capital or Labour Market Opportunities?
- 1 May 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Economic and Industrial Democracy
- Vol. 27 (2), 223-244
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831x06063098
Abstract
Employability is believed to be a crucial concept concerning employees’ job security. This study investigates whether factors associated with human capital and the dual labour market predict perceived employability. Two national representative Swedish samples are used, representing economic recession (1993, N ¼ 4952) and prosperity (1999, N ¼ 6696). Employability was perceived as higher during prosperity, but human capital factors as well as dual labour market factors predicted perceived employability, irrespective of the time period. These findings indicate that the understanding of employability is enhanced by considering both structural and individual dimensions.Keywords
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