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The meaning of language skills for career mobility in the new career landscape

Journal of World Business, 2015
Abstract The present paper establishes a relationship between language skills and career mobility. Due to increased internationalization, reduced job security, and a shift in career ownership to the individual, language skills represent a key career competence today.
Maria Järlström, Rebecca Piekkari
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Psychological mobility and career success in the ‘New’ career climate

Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2012
Abstract We examined the influence of two types of psychological mobility, i.e. boundaryless mindset and organizational mobility preference, on career success. We hypothesized that this relationship would be partially mediated by physical mobility. In addition, we expected the direction of the influence to depend on the type of psychological mobility.
Marijke Verbruggen
exaly   +2 more sources

A Theory of Career Mobility

Journal of Political Economy, 1990
This paper analyzes theoretically and empirically the role and significance of occupational mobility in the labor market focusing on individuals' careers. It provides additional dimensions to the analysis of investment in human capital, wage differences across individuals, and the relationships among promotions, quits, and interfirm occupational ...
Sicherman, Nachum, Galor, Oded
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Couples, Careers, and Spatial Mobility

2021
We investigate the effects of long-distance moves of married couples on both spouses' earnings, employment and job characteristics based on a new administrative dataset from Germany. Employing difference-in-difference propensity score matching and accounting for spouses' premove employment biographies, we show that men's earnings increase significantly
Nassal, Lea, Paul, Marie
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Facebook’s mobile career

New Media & Society, 2014
At the end of its first decade, Facebook’s identity, popularity and characteristics are shaped in important ways by its becoming a form of mobile media. This article seeks to explore and understand Facebook as the important force in mobile media and communication it now is.
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Careers: Mobility, Embeddedness, and Success

Journal of Management, 2007
This article proposes refinements of the constructs of career mobility and career embeddedness and reviews the array of factors that have been found to energize (discourage) employees to change jobs, organizations, and/or occupations. The article also reviews the literature on career success and identifies which types of mobility (and embeddedness ...
Ng, TWH, Feldman, DC
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Career Mobility and Organzational Commitment

Administrative Science Quarterly, 1966
Organizational commitment refers to the nature of the relationship of the member to the system as a whole. Two general factors which influence the strength of a person's attachment to an organization are the rewards he has received from the organization and the experiences he has had to undergo to receive them.
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