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Lehmann, Wolfgang – Journal of Education and Work, 2023
The transition from university to the graduate labour market has become increasingly competitive. As university degrees no longer offer a guarantee for success, graduates mobilise other forms of capital to gain a competitive advantage. First-in-family and working-class students are seen to be disadvantaged as they lack access to the types of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, First Generation College Students, Working Class, College Graduates
Xu, Cora Lingling; Ma, Yin – Journal of Education and Work, 2023
This article investigates how regional inequalities shape the employment seeking experiences and behaviour of graduates by drawing on the case of Chinese Master's graduates under COVID-19. Based on interviews with graduates who chose to work as the 'targeted selected graduates' (TSG) of "University A," located in the underdeveloped…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Geographic Regions, Employment Patterns
Julia A. Nuckols; Anu Sirola; Minna Ylilahti; Terhi-Anna Wilska – Journal of Education and Work, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic challenged the daily continuity of young people by causing financial insecurity, remote work/studies, loss of work, loneliness, stress, and unpredictability of the future. This study explores the experiences of pandemic-time graduates from Finland and Sweden in the transition from higher education to work. Finland and Sweden…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, College Graduates
Stavrou, Sophia – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
?n a policy context in which the harmonisation of HE curricula towards connection with the labour market is pursued, the article seeks to elucidate under-theorised and over-aggregated accounts of the role of the field of study in graduate employability and to investigate it from a new analytical angle to explain variations between fields. Using…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Education Work Relationship, Social Class
Tuononen, Tarja; Hyytinen, Heidi – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
The transition from university to working life is a challenging phase for graduates. The focus in the present longitudinal study is on employability factors and their association with this transition and with early career success. The participants were 43 graduates who were interviewed at the time of their graduation and filled in a follow-up…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, College Graduates, Entry Workers, Education Work Relationship
Storvik, Aagoth Elise; Abrahamsen, Bente – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
The study focuses on students in professional bachelor programs, how men and women navigate career opportunities after graduation. The research is based on longitudinal data from 969 Norwegian students. A crucial finding is that when men and women have equal expectations of entering a management position, they also attain such positions equally…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrators, Bachelors Degrees, Professional Education
Groves, Olivia; O'Shea, Sarah; Delahunty, Janine – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
Success in a complex labour market requires astute planning, preparation and foresight, particularly within the context of the massification of higher education, increasing graduate competitiveness, and a discourse of employability which places the onus of employment on the individual. A cohort experiencing noticeably weaker graduate employment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, First Generation College Students, Employment Potential, Career Readiness
Kamis, Arnold; Habibi, Nader – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
This is an applied econometric analysis of labour market data for the United States. We study the impact of several factors on overflow of overeducated employees into various job categories. We use panel data regression analysis with fixed and random effects. We also use data visualisation to investigate the overeducation trends during 2002-2016…
Descriptors: Self Employment, Educational Attainment, Occupations, College Graduates
Lillehagen, Mats; Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
Each year, students graduate from schools, colleges and universities. Some find a job quickly -- others do not. Delays in the transition from education to work have been associated with scarring effects and detrimental effects on later employment and career progression. Increasing numbers of graduates from universities and colleges are descendants…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Equal Education, College Graduates, Employment Potential
Friedrich, Anett; Hirtz, Sandra – Journal of Education and Work, 2021
Analysing wage differentials due to educational investments within occupations can explain the persistent wage inequality in western industrialised countries, such as Germany. This article contributes to the discussion by examining occupation-specific variance in wage returns for men working full-time in Western Germany between 1976 and 2010. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Salary Wage Differentials, Occupations
Mok, Ka Ho; Xiong, Weiyan; Ye, Huiyuan – Journal of Education and Work, 2021
Graduate employment and unemployment or underemployment are becoming increasingly important issues confronting not only global higher education research but also social and political debates in contemporary societies. In addition to the rapid social and economic changes resulting from the exponential technologies, the outbreak of the COVID-19…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Economic Change, Social Change
Lam, Beatrice Oi-Yeung; Tang, Hei-hang Hayes – Journal of Education and Work, 2021
Declining employment prospects of graduates have been reported in the international literature and in Hong Kong. This casts doubts on the 'employability' of graduates of an expanding higher education sector. Yet, published patterns and trends of graduate employment outcomes do not tell us much about the contextualised processes that 'match' or…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Employment Potential, Higher Education, Education Work Relationship
Morrison, Andrew – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
This article applies Paul Gomberg's theory of contributive justice to the problematic of working-class graduates' access to skilled and meaningful work in the UK. I begin by outlining Gomberg's argument for the importance of quality work as a key social good. I then draw upon a range of sociologically-informed literature to offer a two-fold…
Descriptors: Working Class, Employment Potential, College Graduates, Foreign Countries
Livingstone, D. W. – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
'Employers know that they can hire worldwide now … so, there is limitless supply of people … who can do the job … . they're all qualified, most of them are actually over-qualified … . I'm a wage slave basically, I don't think we have very much social status … . we are replaceable workers … I mean, the employer holds all the cards really. We are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Underemployment, Employment Patterns
Nghia, Tran Le Huu – Journal of Education and Work, 2018
Complementing existing literature about graduate skills gaps from employers' perspectives, this article reports a study that investigated the skills gaps of Vietnamese graduates and final-year students from their own perspectives. Firstly, 257 university graduates were invited to assess the importance level of 35 skills in the workplace. These…
Descriptors: Vietnamese People, College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes