Mass higher education and the changing labour market for graduates : from employability to employment / edited by Fátima Suleman and Pedro Videira (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), DINÂMIA'CET) and Pedro N. Teixeira (Faculty of Economics and CIPES, University of Porto, Portugal).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Suleman, Fátima, editor.

Videira, Pedro, editor.

Teixeira, Pedro N., editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College graduates--Employment.

College graduates.

Labor market.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

"As higher education continues to expand and an increasing number of graduates enter the workforce, this insightful book considers the crucial social and economic questions raised by this societal shift. Fátima Suleman, Pedro Videira and Pedro Teixeira bring together an array of experts to illustrate the connections between higher education and the labour market across continents. Covering both developed and developing countries, chapter authors identify common employment patterns and anomalies of the employment conditions of graduates in different economies. Analysis explores the higher levels of overqualification in countries with low levels of high-tech manufacturing and service sectors and examines the overall benefits of higher education from a labour market perspective. This crucial book argues that the relationship between higher education and the skilled labour market is increasingly complex, and that higher education faces significant challenges to promote the employability of graduates whilst the labour market system attempts to absorb this skilled workforce. This is an invaluable resource for students, academics and graduates specialising in higher education, education policy, employment relations and labour policy. Its statistical analysis of the changing international labour market is also key for labour market stakeholders and policymakers"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Foreword: The never-ending tension between the expansion of higher education and graduate careers / Ulrich Teichler

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The complex transition of higher education graduates into the labour market / Fátima Suleman, Pedro Videira, and Pedro N. Teixeira

Part I. Graduates' labour market challenges and strategies in massified higher education systems in high-income countries

1. The consequences of the dualization of the French higher education system for graduates' vertical mismatch in the labour market / Jean-François Giret and Janine Jongbloed

2. The school-to-work transition among college graduates in south korea / Jisun Jung and Soo Jeung Lee

3. The Spanish higher education system and the employability of its graduates / Adela García-Aracil and Rosa Isusi-Fagoaga

Part II. Graduates' labour market challenges and strategies in massified higher education systems in middle-income countries

4. The expansion of higher education and overeducation in portugal: Insights from the last two decades / Fátima Suleman, Pedro Videira and Pedro N. Teixeira

5. The economic situation of higher education graduates in the labour market in Poland / Dominik Antonowicz and Jarosław Domalewski

6. The massification of higher education and labour market outcomes of university graduates in Russia / Victor Rudakov, Sergey Roshchin, Ksenia Rozhkova and Pavel Travkin

7. From employability to employment: University education and employers' requirements in chile / Oscar Espinoza and Noel McGinn

Part III. Graduates' labour market challenges and strategies in emerging higher education systems in developing countries

8. Growing pains: Higher education expansion and graduate employment in China / Po Yang

9. Social origin, skills, and graduates' formal employability in brazil: How does it vary across fields of study and institutions? / André de Holanda Padilha Vieira and Maria Ligia de Oliveira Barbosa

10. Growth, employment, and employability in India: A gendered outlook / Mona Khare and Sonam Arora

11. The lebanese labour market: The bittersweet reality / Leila Youssef

12. Conclusion: Global trends for the economic and social factors affecting the returns of higher education / Fátima Suleman, Pedro Videira, and Pedro N. Teixeira.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781035307159 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.