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Fuelling displacement and labour market segmentation in low-skilled jobs? Insights from a local study of migrant and student employment
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Green, Anne E., Atfield, Gaby and Purcell, Kate (2016) Fuelling displacement and labour market segmentation in low-skilled jobs? Insights from a local study of migrant and student employment. Environment and Planning A, 48 (3). pp. 577-593. doi:10.1177/0308518X15614327
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518X15614327
Abstract
Medium-term employment trends highlight increasing labour market disadvantage for people with no/low qualifications. Consequently, established local populations with no/low qualifications have been reported as being hostile to ‘new arrivals’ filling local jobs, on the basis that they are perceived as taking employment opportunities away from them. Drawing on a local study of migrant and student employment on opportunities for people with no/low formal qualifications in the UK city of Coventry, this paper shows how labour market restructuring in the context of neoliberalism has resulted in an increasingly compartmentalised labour market, in which some types of employment have become undesirable and often not feasible for some local workers, but attractive (or at least acceptable) for other groups, including migrant workers and students. The outcome is reduced labour market opportunities for local people with no/low qualifications, because the more flexible migrant workers and students allow employers to restructure their workforces and develop jobs that fit with the ‘frames of reference’ of these groups but match the requirements of some established local people less well.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Employment Research | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Foreign workers -- Great Britain, Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects, Labor market -- Great Britain, Labor supply -- Great Britain, Labor mobility -- Great Britain, Foreign workers -- Government policy -- Great Britain, Migrant labor -- Great Britain | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Environment and Planning A | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Pion Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0308-518X | ||||||||
| Official Date: | March 2016 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 48 | ||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 577-593 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0308518X15614327 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Funder: | UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) | ||||||||
| Grant number: | contract no. RP1 POD3 RP |
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