Not Just Arms and Legs: Employer Perspectives on Student Workers

Autor/inn/en	Whittard, Damian; Drew, Hilary; Ritchie, Felix
Titel	Not Just Arms and Legs: Employer Perspectives on Student Workers
Quelle	In: Journal of Education and Work, 35 (2022) 6-7, S.751-765 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Whittard, Damian) ORCID (Drew, Hilary) ORCID (Ritchie, Felix)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-9080
DOI	10.1080/13639080.2022.2126972
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Employers; Student Employment; Employer Attitudes; Labor Force Development; Personnel Selection; Work Experience; Unskilled Workers; Semiskilled Workers; Job Skills; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Studentenarbeit; Arbeitgeberinteresse; Arbeitskräftebestand; Personalauswahl; Personalentscheidung; Employment experience; Job experience; Occupational experience; Berufserfahrung; Unskilled worker; Hilfsarbeiter; Semi-skilled worker; Semi-skilled workers; Semiskilled worker; Ungelernter Arbeitnehmer; Angelernter Arbeitnehmer; Produktive Fertigkeit; Großbritannien
Abstract	The student workforce plays a substantial part in several low-paying industries such as retail and hospitality, and this has grown over time. However, there has been little recent research. The usual assumption is that students compete successfully with the local labour force for low-skill, part-time jobs, but there is little evidence for this. Using results from twelve employer interviews located in two cities in the United Kingdom (Bristol and Cardiff), we reconsider employers' perspectives on taking on students. We find that, rather than seeing the labour market as an undistinguished mass of 'arms and legs', employers are well aware of the pros and cons of employing students, and use this information to build flexible workforces which complement the local non-student labour supply. This fits into the well documented model of the 'core' and 'periphery' workforces. We do find evidence of indirect competition, through changes in the way jobs are advertised and filled. We also note the growth in managers who have themselves worked as students may be changing the 'frame of reference' of those managers, further shifting the demand for student workers in the long term. (As Provided).
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