Etnografia del microcredito in Italia: dare per ricevere nelle politiche di inclusione sociale
In: Antropologia per la società 7
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In: Antropologia per la società 7
In: Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo: Semestrale di Scienze Umane, Volume 23, Issue 2
ISSN: 2038-3215
In: Administrative Sciences: open access journal, Volume 12, Issue 1, p. 7
ISSN: 2076-3387
Competition among developed industrialised countries for highly skilled migrants has increased in recent decades with the onset of the knowledge-based economy and society (Triandafyllidou and Isaakyan 2014) [...]
In: Administrative Sciences: open access journal, Volume 11, Issue 1, p. 7
ISSN: 2076-3387
While global economies are in a tremendous need for talented workers that could fill vacancies in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields, available evidence shows that highly skilled migrants with a background in these fields are not protected from brain waste and deskilling. In this paper, we add to the previous literature on the employability of highly skilled migrant women from the specific—and under-investigated—perspective of labor market intermediaries. We specifically investigate what the barriers and resources are for employability of highly skilled migrant women in STEM, as perceived by labor market intermediaries' professionals; and what the training needs are that labor market intermediaries' professionals perceive to effectively work with this target group. We use unique explorative survey data collected in 2018 in five countries (Greece, Hungary, Italy, Sweden, United Kingdom) from professionals working in diverse labor market intermediary organizations. We find that these professionals perceive the employability of migrant women in STEM as rather low, and strongly determined by migrant women's psychological capital. Professionals in Southern Europe perceive structural barriers as more important than those in other countries. Professionals display training needs related to ad-hoc mentoring and networking competences for this specific target group. We discuss theoretical and practical implications.