Youth joblessness often leaves a scar. However, some ethnic groups appear to be more successful i... more Youth joblessness often leaves a scar. However, some ethnic groups appear to be more successful in recovering from this than others. Using a unique dataset (ONS Longitudinal Study) linking census records for a 1% sample of the population of England and Wales, we examine the relationship between early labour market experiences and later employment outcomes for men and women from Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Caribbean origins to those of white British individuals. Our results show that, on average, being unemployed or inactive in youth (vs being employed or in education) reduces employment opportunities later in life. However, this varies greatly by ethnicity and gender: Indian and, especially, Bangladeshi men are substantively less affected by previous non-employment compared with white British men; for women, having an ethnic minority background continues to limit their labour market integration. Addressing gender and ethnic labour market inequalities requires a more nuanced understanding of how these disadvantages unfurl over time for different communities.
Surprisingly little attention has been given to an integrated understanding of the interaction be... more Surprisingly little attention has been given to an integrated understanding of the interaction between ethnicity, gender and parental household's employment status affecting young people's educational and labour market outcomes. Drawing on data from Understanding Society, the article compares youth probabilities of becoming NEET (not in employment, education or training) in the UK, focusing on the outcomes for young men and women from different ethnic groups and from four types of 'households of origin': workless, one-earner, single-parent-earner and two-earner. The article shows that while, on average, young people with workless parents have a higher likelihood of becoming NEET compared to individuals from households with at least one employed parent, this does not apply universally to all ethnic minority groups, nor equally to young men and women. Having workless parents is much less detrimental for second-generation Indian and African men, and for second-generation Bangladeshi men and women, than for white British individuals. An intersectional analysis illustrates the universal and differentiated effects of disadvantage among youth.
... a Chance 45 4 Parents' Working Conditions and Ch... more ... a Chance 45 4 Parents' Working Conditions and Children's Health 5 Economic and Gender Inequalities 113 6 ... Gabriela noted, I've heard that over-time at night should be paid at percent of ... We are a thousand people working in the factory, and we all get our lunch break at ...
The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 1995
This paper compares recent developments in the recruitment and training practices of retail banks... more This paper compares recent developments in the recruitment and training practices of retail banks in Germany, Britain and France. It examines how common competitive pressures have resulted in companies adopting significantly different solutions to these challenges. This is largely due to the constraints and opportunities created by national as well as particular sectoral institutional arrangements in each country. As a result of the behaviour of individual banks, sectoral training providers and state-guided training institutions, the ...
The UBR (University of Brighton Repository) is a central institutional repository that records th... more The UBR (University of Brighton Repository) is a central institutional repository that records the work of the University's researchers. It is an open access, organic resource and is freely available via the web to researchers worldwide.
Equity in the Workplace: Gendering Workplace Policy Analysis, 2004
The differential economic performance of leading industrialized countries in the recent postwar p... more The differential economic performance of leading industrialized countries in the recent postwar period lias stimulated interest in debates concerned with" varieties of capitalism" and their effects tSoskice, 2000). Comparative research in this area emphasi/. es the institutional complementarities and maps the relative strengths of the Japanese and German employment models, in comparison to the relative inequalities generated by" free-market" Anglo-Saxon economies tCrouch and Streeck, 1997). Through an anatomy of capitalism it ...
Conceptually this paper focuses on households' organisation of work and care fro... more Conceptually this paper focuses on households' organisation of work and care from a cross-national comparative perspective (O'Reilly 2006, Haas et al. 2006), developing an analytical framework from the capabilities approach (Sen 1992, Nussbaum 2003) and the concept of 'constrained choice'(Folbre 1994). It draws on the concept of transitional labour markets to examine changes of employment at various points in the lifecycle (Schmid 2008, Schmid 2002, O'Reillly et al. 2001 O'Reilly 2003, Giddens 2007). This analysis contributes to ...
Youth joblessness often leaves a scar. However, some ethnic groups appear to be more successful i... more Youth joblessness often leaves a scar. However, some ethnic groups appear to be more successful in recovering from this than others. Using a unique dataset (ONS Longitudinal Study) linking census records for a 1% sample of the population of England and Wales, we examine the relationship between early labour market experiences and later employment outcomes for men and women from Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Caribbean origins to those of white British individuals. Our results show that, on average, being unemployed or inactive in youth (vs being employed or in education) reduces employment opportunities later in life. However, this varies greatly by ethnicity and gender: Indian and, especially, Bangladeshi men are substantively less affected by previous non-employment compared with white British men; for women, having an ethnic minority background continues to limit their labour market integration. Addressing gender and ethnic labour market inequalities requires a more nuanced understanding of how these disadvantages unfurl over time for different communities.
Surprisingly little attention has been given to an integrated understanding of the interaction be... more Surprisingly little attention has been given to an integrated understanding of the interaction between ethnicity, gender and parental household's employment status affecting young people's educational and labour market outcomes. Drawing on data from Understanding Society, the article compares youth probabilities of becoming NEET (not in employment, education or training) in the UK, focusing on the outcomes for young men and women from different ethnic groups and from four types of 'households of origin': workless, one-earner, single-parent-earner and two-earner. The article shows that while, on average, young people with workless parents have a higher likelihood of becoming NEET compared to individuals from households with at least one employed parent, this does not apply universally to all ethnic minority groups, nor equally to young men and women. Having workless parents is much less detrimental for second-generation Indian and African men, and for second-generation Bangladeshi men and women, than for white British individuals. An intersectional analysis illustrates the universal and differentiated effects of disadvantage among youth.
... a Chance 45 4 Parents' Working Conditions and Ch... more ... a Chance 45 4 Parents' Working Conditions and Children's Health 5 Economic and Gender Inequalities 113 6 ... Gabriela noted, I've heard that over-time at night should be paid at percent of ... We are a thousand people working in the factory, and we all get our lunch break at ...
The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 1995
This paper compares recent developments in the recruitment and training practices of retail banks... more This paper compares recent developments in the recruitment and training practices of retail banks in Germany, Britain and France. It examines how common competitive pressures have resulted in companies adopting significantly different solutions to these challenges. This is largely due to the constraints and opportunities created by national as well as particular sectoral institutional arrangements in each country. As a result of the behaviour of individual banks, sectoral training providers and state-guided training institutions, the ...
The UBR (University of Brighton Repository) is a central institutional repository that records th... more The UBR (University of Brighton Repository) is a central institutional repository that records the work of the University's researchers. It is an open access, organic resource and is freely available via the web to researchers worldwide.
Equity in the Workplace: Gendering Workplace Policy Analysis, 2004
The differential economic performance of leading industrialized countries in the recent postwar p... more The differential economic performance of leading industrialized countries in the recent postwar period lias stimulated interest in debates concerned with" varieties of capitalism" and their effects tSoskice, 2000). Comparative research in this area emphasi/. es the institutional complementarities and maps the relative strengths of the Japanese and German employment models, in comparison to the relative inequalities generated by" free-market" Anglo-Saxon economies tCrouch and Streeck, 1997). Through an anatomy of capitalism it ...
Conceptually this paper focuses on households' organisation of work and care fro... more Conceptually this paper focuses on households' organisation of work and care from a cross-national comparative perspective (O'Reilly 2006, Haas et al. 2006), developing an analytical framework from the capabilities approach (Sen 1992, Nussbaum 2003) and the concept of 'constrained choice'(Folbre 1994). It draws on the concept of transitional labour markets to examine changes of employment at various points in the lifecycle (Schmid 2008, Schmid 2002, O'Reillly et al. 2001 O'Reilly 2003, Giddens 2007). This analysis contributes to ...
The growth in part-time employment has been one of the most striking features in industrialized e... more The growth in part-time employment has been one of the most striking features in industrialized economies over the past forty years. Part-Time Prospects presents for the first time a systematically comparative analysis of the common and divergent patterns in the use of part-time work in Europe, America and the Pacific Rim. It brings together sociologists and economists in this wide-ranging and comprehensive survey. It tackles such areas as gender issues, ethnic questions and the differences between certain national economies including low pay, pensions and labour standards
Uploads
Papers by Jacqueline A O'Reilly