ISSN:
0959-3845
Source:
Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
Topics:
Computer Science
,
Sociology
Notes:
Young people entering their first year of university studies were asked to give their impressions of 12 high knowledge and information sector occupations. Their perceptions yield a complex set of expectations that are consistent, in large measure, with experts' predictions of the information sector's occupational winners and losers. The majority of students aspire to be self-employed or to work in the private, rather than the public sector. Of the occupations included in the study, the students perceived the occupation "librarian" most negatively in terms of skill, status, compensation and future opportunity, unlike, for example, the similar occupation, "Internet researcher". The results are discussed in term of the complex interactions of gender, computing, and skill on the attractiveness of difference types of work.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09593840410522189
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