TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparison of perceived employment barriers among low-income jobseekers in the United States and South Korea
AU - Hong, Philip Young P.
AU - Song, In Han
AU - Choi, Sangmi
AU - Park, Jang Ho
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015.
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - The Perceived Employment Barrier Scale (PEBS) has been validated as a tool to assess low-income individuals’ level of employment barriers in the United States. Using samples from workforce development programs in the United States and South Korea, this study aims to examine the comparability of this measure and to compare score differences on the five factors of PEBS between the two samples. Evidence for cross-sample equivalence was found, indicating cross-national comparability. Furthermore, the South Korean sample perceived significantly higher on human capital barriers compared to the United States. Implications for workforce development practice and research in the United States and South Korea are discussed.
AB - The Perceived Employment Barrier Scale (PEBS) has been validated as a tool to assess low-income individuals’ level of employment barriers in the United States. Using samples from workforce development programs in the United States and South Korea, this study aims to examine the comparability of this measure and to compare score differences on the five factors of PEBS between the two samples. Evidence for cross-sample equivalence was found, indicating cross-national comparability. Furthermore, the South Korean sample perceived significantly higher on human capital barriers compared to the United States. Implications for workforce development practice and research in the United States and South Korea are discussed.
KW - Comparative research
KW - employment barriers
KW - measurement invariance
KW - psychological self-sufficiency
KW - workforce development
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85039803959&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0020872815600509
DO - 10.1177/0020872815600509
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85039803959
SN - 0020-8728
VL - 61
SP - 23
EP - 39
JO - International Social Work
JF - International Social Work
IS - 1
ER -