Mass Higher Education and the Changing Labour Market for Graduates

Between Employability and Employment

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvFátima Suleman,Pedro Videira,Pedro N. Teixeira

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-08-16
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781035307142

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ContentsForeword: the never-ending tension between the expansion ofhigher education and graduate careers xiiUlrich TeichlerAcknowledgements xvIntroduction: the complex transition of higher educationgraduates into the labour market 1Fátima Suleman, Pedro Videira, and Pedro N. TeixeiraPART I GRADUATES’ LABOUR MARKETCHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES INMASSIFIED HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEMSIN HIGH-INCOME COUNTRIES1 The consequences of the dualization of the French highereducation system for graduates’ vertical mismatch in thelabour market 12Jean-François Giret and Janine Jongbloed2 The school-to-work transition among college graduates inSouth Korea 35Jisun Jung and Soo Jeung Lee3 The Spanish higher education system and theemployability of its graduates 57Adela García-Aracil and Rosa Isusi-FagoagaPART II GRADUATES’ LABOUR MARKETCHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES INMASSIFIED HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEMSIN MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES4 The expansion of higher education and overeducation inPortugal: insights from the last two decades 80Fátima Suleman, Pedro Videira and Pedro N. Teixeira5 The economic situation of higher education graduates inthe labour market in Poland 102Dominik Antonowicz and Jarosław Domalewski6 The massification of higher education and labour marketoutcomes of university graduates in Russia 125Victor Rudakov, Sergey Roshchin, Ksenia Rozhkovaand Pavel Travkin7 From employability to employment: university educationand employers’ requirements in Chile 157Oscar Espinoza and Noel McGinnPART III GRADUATES’ LABOUR MARKETCHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES INEMERGING HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEMSIN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES8 Growing pains: higher education expansion and graduateemployment in China 183Po Yang9 Social origin, skills, and graduates’ formal employabilityin Brazil: how does it vary across fields of study and institutions? 206André de Holanda Padilha Vieira and Maria Ligia deOliveira Barbosa10 Growth, employment, and employability in India:a gendered outlook 231Mona Khare and Sonam Arora11 The Lebanese labour market: the bittersweet reality 250Leila Youssef12 Conclusion: global trends for the economic and socialfactors affecting the returns of higher education 276Fátima Suleman, Pedro Videira, and Pedro N. Teixeira

‘Through a diverse set of country studies, this impressive book demonstrates the complexity of graduate employability in high-participation systems of higher education. While the stratification of outcomes among graduates is a common finding across diverse national cases, the scale and texture of the problem is nuanced and country specific. This expertly researched book is essential reading for anyone interested in the role of higher education in the economy and will be of great interest to both academics and policymakers.’