Does international work experience pay off?

ǂthe ǂrelationship between international work experience, employability and career success

Maike Andresen (Author), Mila Lazarova (Author), Eleni Apospori (Author), Richard Cotton (Author), Janine Bosak (Author), Michael Dickmann (Author), Robert Kaše (Author), Adam Smale (Author)

Abstract

Drawing on human capital theory, our study examines the relationship between international work experience and individuals' career success in terms of promotions and subjective financial success. We propose that these relationships are mediated by external employability and hypothesise a moderating role of national-level economic freedom. Using data from 19,421 respondents, residing in 30 countries and working in different occupational groups (managers, professionals, clerical and blue-collar workers), our results suggest that international work experience is positively related to promotions and subjective financial success across our study's different national contexts. These positive relationships were mediated by individuals' perceived external employability. Some support for the moderation of the relationship between international work experience and employability through economic freedom was only found when we differentiate between different types of international work experience. The findings enhance our understanding of the association between international work experience and career success from a human capital perspective.

Keywords

management;človeški kapital;kadri;prenos znanja;inovativnost;stimulacija;human capital;personnel;knowledge transfer;innovativeness;stimulation;

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Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2022
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	UL EF - Faculty of Economics
UDC:	331.108
COBISS:	89013763
ISSN:	0954-5395
Views:	207
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