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In day care nursery, people without a preceding educational training can be employed after a vocational re-training. For the employees, a new professional perspective and a non-normative transition open up. Analysing focused-narrative interviews with two child minders, we intend to reconstruct the motives of these women for such a professional re-orientation.
Nowadays, employees are part of a rather dynamic working environment, which is significantly marked by increasing digitalisation. As a result, qualification and competence requirements as well as job contents are changing. Findings by the qualification panel of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) indicate that a company's higher digitalisation level requires higher skill profiles. More digitalised companies also have a larger number continuing education measures, …
Der Beitrag problematisiert den Begriff des zweiten Arbeitsmarktes, geht kurz auf die unterschiedlichen Voraussetzungen und Entwicklungen in Ost- und Westdeutschland ein und konzentriert sich dann auf die Situation und Funktion des zweiten Arbeitsmarktes in peripheren Regionen Ostdeutschlands.