Should we start worrying? Mass higher education, skill demand and the increasingly complex landscape of young graduates' employment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4097633 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hugo Figueiredo (0000-0002-4336-2533, University of Aveiro, corresponding author), Ricardo Biscaia (0000-0001-5596-6564, CIPES – Centro de Investigação em Políticas do Ensino Superior, Rua 1° de Dezembro, 399, 4450-227 Matosinhos, Portugal), Vera Rocha (0000-0003-0227-7129, CIPES – Centro de Investigação em Políticas do Ensino Superior, Rua 1° de Dezembro, 399, 4450-227 Matosinhos, Portugal), Pery Teixeira (0000-0002-7128-8238, CIPES – Centro de Investigação em Políticas do Ensino Superior, Rua 1° de Dezembro, 399, 4450-227 Matosinhos, Portugal) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1401-1420 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03075079.2015.1101754 |
| OpenAlex | W2235770076 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 30 |
Recent decades have seen a massive expansion in higher education (HE), fuelled by high expectations about its private benefits. This has raised concerns about the impact on the employability of recent graduates and the potential mismatches between their skills and the competences required by the job structure. Equally, it could set the ground for a possible transformation of demand for graduate skills and the emergence of new employment profiles. In this article, data for Portugal for the period 2000–2010 were used to look at compositional changes in graduate employment and the incidence of three potential problems in graduates’ transition to the labour market: overeducation, overskilling and education–job mismatches. The implications of growing demand heterogeneity on increasing inequality in graduate labour markets and on the expectations supporting mass HE in a country that rapidly expanded access to tertiary education as a strategy to converge with the productivity levels of other more developed economies are discussed
Business · Economic growth · Economics · Higher education · Labour economics · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Higher Education and Employability · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Psychology
As dimensões morais de classe social
Employability skills and jobs for graduates
Learning Analytics for Bridging the Skills Gap
Introduction to the special issue
Employment Prospects of Graduates From Sino-Foreign Cooperative Universities in China
Educational expansion in the Netherlands
Competition and diversification in higher education
An Unintended Consequence? The Impact of Higher Education Expansion on the Retake Rate of the College Entrance Examination
Brokers of international student mobility
The politics of temporal sovereignty and the subaltern MA
Mass Higher Education and Massification
Employers and Universities
Higher education expansion and post-college unemployment
Soft skills and the corporate social dimension
Sentiment Analysis of Public Opinions on the Higher Education Expansion Policy in China
Youth underemployment
Navigating the graduate labour market
Cubicles or corner offices? Effects of academic performance on university graduates’ employment likelihood and salary
The employability dispositif, or the re-articulation of the relationship between universities and their environment
Re-engagement with education over the life course
Just Another Level? Comparing Quantitative Patterns of Global Expansion of School and Higher Education Attainment
Employers and graduates
Career boundaries and employability perceptions
Closing the middle-skills gap widened by digitalization
Chasing rainbows
The predicaments of craftsmanship in the knowledge economy
Markets in Higer Education
The New Division of Labor
Overeducation in the Labour Market
Overeducation among European University Graduates
Overqualification, job dissatisfaction, and increasing dispersion in the returns to graduate education
Technical Change, Job Tasks, and Rising Educational Demands
The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change
Human Capital
The Race between Education and Technology
Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality
Globalisation, knowledge and the myth of the magnet economy
The global auction
Employee Involvement, Technology and Evolution in Job Skills
Task Specificity and the Gender Wage Gap
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,89 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |