Are new work practices and new technologies biased against immigrant workers?

Autor/inn/en	Rosholm, Michael; Roed, Marianne; Schone, Pal
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Are new work practices and new technologies biased against immigrant workers? Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Wirken sich neue Formen der Arbeitsorganisation und neue Technologien negativ auf ausländische Arbeitskräfte aus?
Quelle	Bonn (2006), 25 S.; 201 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA discussion paper. 2135
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Gruppendynamik; Soziale Beziehung; Kommunikative Kompetenz; Inländer; Unternehmenskultur; Arbeitsmarktchance; Qualifikationsanforderung; Arbeitsorganisation; Arbeitspapier; Auswirkung; Arbeitnehmer; Ausländer; Norwegen
Abstract	"New technologies and new work practices have been introduced and implemented over a broad range in the production process in most advanced industrialised countries during the last two decades. New work organisation practices like team organisation and job rotation require interpersonal communication to a larger extent compared to the traditional assembly line types of production. In addition to handling the formal language, communication in this respect includes country-specific skills related to understanding social and cultural codes, unwritten rules, implicit communication, norms etc. In this paper we analyse whether these developments - by increasing the importance of communication and informal human capital - have had a negative effect on employment opportunities of immigrants. The results show that firms that use PCs intensively and firms that give their employees broad autonomy employ fewer non-Western immigrants who have not been raised in Norway (i.e. arrived as adults). Furthermore, the negative relationships are especially strong for low-skilled non-Western immigrants. These results may add support to the hypothesis stating that new technologies and (some) new work practices are biased against non-Western immigrant workers, and especially those with low formal skills." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1997 bis 2003. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2006/5