How wide is the gap? Comparing geography graduates’ labor market success with that of peers from business and computer science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11953708 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christian Teichert (0000-0003-1960-3154, Leibniz University Hannover, corresponding author), Ingo Liefner (0000-0003-1828-5836, Leibniz University Hannover), Anne Otto (0000-0003-3563-3206, Institute for Employment Research, IAB Rhineland-Palatinate-Saarland, Germany) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 599-627 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Geography in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-8265 • E-ISSN: 1466-1845 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03098265.2021.1960490 |
| OpenAlex | W3194656111 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 52 |
With growing numbers of university graduates, the choice of academic programs has gained in importance to enter the labor market successfully. Simultaneously, the link between the field of study and actual professional career is becoming increasingly blurry. This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of these relations and to position geography in this wide spectrum. We develop a conceptual framework to systematically categorize the relations between academic programs and their associated labor markets. We employ this framework in a most-different-case design to quantitatively analyze the influence of the field on the graduates’ career prospects, using student records of several German universities linked with administrative biographical data from social security records. We find evidence that the influence of the field of study on full-time employment and wage is substantial, controlling for various factors. Geographers do face difficulties on the labor market, but the demand for their core competencies – interdisciplinary, spatially specific and sustainability-related thinking – is rising through current societal developments. Moreover, we find some indication that those performance gaps are not an exceptional phenomenon of geographers but also apply to graduates of different fields of study with multidimensional and indirect links to the associated labor markets
Career Pathways · Categorization · Economics · Field (mathematics · Geography · German · Labour economics · Position (finance · Sociology · Sustainability · Wage · Computer Science · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |