Wall, T, Ngo, N, Foster, S, Luong, P, Ho, T, Hindley, A and Stokes, P (2024) The spatialization of decent Work and the role of employability empowerment for minority ethnic young people in emerging economies. PLoS One. ISSN 1932-6203

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Abstract

Global rises in precarious labour conditions have prompted further empirical work in Decent Work, a special category of employment characterised by equitable pay, treatment, and healthy working conditions. Despite this, research has tended to be conducted in developed countries with privileged groups such as those with typical working arrangements and rely on psychologically framed individual characteristics to explain marginalising factors. We propose a more sociologically framed, spatialised perspective on Decent Work which posits that marginalising factors are spatially variable and determined but moderated by employability empowerment. We measure our propositions across three spatially different sites of Vietnam through (1) a survey of minority ethnic students and graduates (N=1071) and (2) a survey of stakeholders involved in the recruitment and employment of this group (N=204). We find support for most of our propositions and call for more spatialised empirical work in the field of Decent Work.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	General Science & Technology
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5001 Business H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Divisions:	Liverpool Business School
Publisher:	Public Library of Science
SWORD Depositor:	A Symplectic
Date Deposited:	08 Jan 2024 16:11
Last Modified:	01 Mar 2024 08:30
DOI or ID number:	10.1371/journal.pone.0297487
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/22226

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