Universities and the labour market : graduate transitions from education to employment / Magdalena Jelonek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jelonek, Magdalena, 1979- author.

Series:

Routledge studies in labour economics.

Routledge studies in labour economics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business and education.

College graduates--Employment.

College graduates.

Labor supply--Effect of education on.

Labor supply.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (163 pages)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2022]

Summary:

"Debate surrounding the employability of graduates has been around for many decades, and interest in this area has grown particularly since the start of this century. Tackling this relevant area of scholarship, this book uses an innovate approach to analyse the relationship between university and the labour market from different perspectives, taking into account both sociological and economic theories. Key areas explored include work transition, graduate employability, and the effects of public interventions/initiatives which are aimed at matching the competences of graduates to labour market needs. The chapters summarise several years of author original research, including study on the employability of graduates in Poland more specifically, and the effects of their public interventions to increase graduate employment and facilitate entry into the workforce (e.g. Commissioned Fields of Study, Competences Development Programme). More generally, university - labour market relations are analysed from three perspectives: micro (understood as individual characteristics shaping educational and occupational choices and decisions), and meso and macro (e.g. features of the education system and such as the strength of the signal sent by HE diplomas; the macroeconomic situation and the condition of the labour market and the state of debate on general and employability competences and its implications). The conclusions made are pertinent given ongoing debates around graduate mismatch in the labour market, as well as the questioning of tuition fees and the role of the university in society more broadly. The interdisciplinary nature of this book makes it of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the areas of sociology, economy, public policy, and also to practitioners designing educational interventions themselves. Magdalena Jelonek is a sociologist and assistant professor at the Cracow University of Economics, and researcher (adjunct) at Centre for Evaluation and Analysis of Public Policies at Jagiellonian University, Poland"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Bibliography

Part I. The transition from graduation to work - theoretical perspectives

1. Human capital theory

The signalling function of education - Spence and Stiglitz labour market model

Notes

2. Education as a positional good

Note

3. Social closure models

Summary

Part II: Structural-institutional settings, individual characteristics and university-work transition

4. Employability skills agenda, skills race and IVth Industrial Revolution

The graduates' [general and employability] skills

Technological revolution and skill needs

5. Individual characteristics and university to work transition

Education - possessional and positional approach

Social class, gender and ethnicity

6. Structural-institutional settings and university to work transition

Labour market dynamics and university to work transition

Skills transparency and university to work transition

Annexe II

Part III: University-work transition and public interventions - the case of Competence Development Program in Poland

7. The Competence Development Program - genesis and characteristics

Competence Development Programme - main assumptions

8. The Competence Development Program - effects of intervention

The framework for evaluating the effects of interventions

Macro characteristics differentiating the professional situation of graduates in Poland as a basis for counterfactual sample selection

Effects of CDP intervention

Annex III.1

Annex III.2.

Afterword

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-316148-0

1-000-52329-2

1-000-52333-0

1-003-16148-0

9781003161486

OCLC:

1263248075