Handbook of Education and Work

Edited by Maarten H.J. Wolbers, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Radboud University, the Netherlands and Dieter Verhaest, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, KU Leuven, Belgium

• Contents1 Research on the education-work nexus: where are we and where to go? 1Dieter Verhaest and Maarten H.J. WolbersPART I EDUCATION AND LABOUR MARKET OUTCOMES 2 Returns to education in the context of higher education expansion 16Tom McKenzie, Lei Xu and Yu Zhu3 Vocational education and labor market outcomes 37Thijs Bol and Andrea Forster4 Field of study choice and labor market outcomes 52Nicolai T. Borgen and David Reimer5 The importance of socio-emotional skills for multiple life outcomes and the role of education 75Barbara Belfi and Lex BorghansPART II WORKING WHILE STUDYING 6 Student employment in higher education: patterns, drivers and outcomes 106Moris Triventi, Giampiero Passaretta and Guido Salza7 The significance of internships: a review of their impact on educational and labour market outcomes 138Ilse Tobback and Ruxanda BerlinschiPART III THE TRANSITION FROM EDUCATION TO WORK 8 Social, gender and ethnic inequalities in education and school-to-work transitions 170Emer Smyth and Merike Darmody9 A review and bibliometric analysis of NEET research with a special focus on longitudinal studies 186Alexander Dicks 10 The role of labour market institutions in the transition from education to work 204Luis Ortiz-Gervasi and Michael Gebel11 Effective interventions for NEETs: a systematic review 228Wendy I.E. Wesseling, Geerte J. Dijkstra and Sonja Bekker12 Scarring effects of bad transitions from education to work 251Paolo Barbieri and Filippo GioachinPART IV LIFELONG LEARNING 13 Firm-provided training in imperfect labour markets 276Stijn Vanormelingen14 Employability: the race between skills obsolescence and lifelong learning 293Annemarie Künn-NelenPART V THE MISMATCH BETWEEN EDUCATION AND WORK 15 Skills mismatch: what do we already know and what do we need to know? 318Seamus McGuinness, Paul Redmond, Elisa Staffa, Anne Devlin and Adele Whelan16 Field-of-study mismatch: measures, drivers and consequences 340Cecilia Albert, Maria A. Davia and Nuria LegazpePART VI METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN RESEARCH ON EDUCATION AND WORK 17 Understanding the link between education and work: the role of natural experiments 358Kristof De Witte, Hannelore Nelissen and Gonzalo Sanz-Magallón Rezusta18 Employers as key gatekeepers in school-to-work transitions: a review of experimental research using factorial surveys and correspondence tests 375Valentina Di Stasio and Patrick McDonald 19 Vacancy data: opportunities and challenges associated with a novel data source 396Marlis Buchmann and Jan MüllerIndex 419

‘The relation between education and work includes many so-called wicked problems due to complex interdependencies. In this Handbook, more than 40 experts throw new light on these issues in the major domains of education and work.’