Should we start worrying? Mass higher education, skill demand and the increasingly complex landscape of young graduates’ employment.
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Resumo: | 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. |
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Should we start worrying? Mass higher education, skill demand and the increasingly complex landscape of young graduates’ employment.Education–job mismatchesHigher educationOvereducationOverskillingPortugalRecent 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.Routledge2016-02-24T10:26:36Z2016-02-242015-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfFigueiredo, H., Biscaia, R., Rocha, V., & Teixeira, Pedro (2015). Should we start worrying? Mass higher education, skill demand and the increasingly complex landscape of young graduates’ employment. Studies in Higher Education, Vol. 40 (10), 1-21. doi: 10.1080/03075079.2015.1101754. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11328/1447.http://hdl.handle.net/11328/1447Figueiredo, H., Biscaia, R., Rocha, V., & Teixeira, Pedro (2015). Should we start worrying? Mass higher education, skill demand and the increasingly complex landscape of young graduates’ employment. Studies in Higher Education, Vol. 40 (10), 1-21. doi: 10.1080/03075079.2015.1101754. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11328/1447.http://hdl.handle.net/11328/1447engFigueiredo, HugoBiscaia, RicardoRocha, VeraTeixeira, Pedroinfo:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-16T02:12:38Zoai:repositorio.upt.pt:11328/1447Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T22:41:25.467252Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Should we start worrying? Mass higher education, skill demand and the increasingly complex landscape of young graduates’ employment. |
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Should we start worrying? Mass higher education, skill demand and the increasingly complex landscape of young graduates’ employment. |
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Should we start worrying? Mass higher education, skill demand and the increasingly complex landscape of young graduates’ employment. Figueiredo, Hugo Education–job mismatches Higher education Overeducation Overskilling Portugal |
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Should we start worrying? Mass higher education, skill demand and the increasingly complex landscape of young graduates’ employment. |
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Should we start worrying? Mass higher education, skill demand and the increasingly complex landscape of young graduates’ employment. |
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Should we start worrying? Mass higher education, skill demand and the increasingly complex landscape of young graduates’ employment. |
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Should we start worrying? Mass higher education, skill demand and the increasingly complex landscape of young graduates’ employment. |
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Should we start worrying? Mass higher education, skill demand and the increasingly complex landscape of young graduates’ employment. |
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Figueiredo, Hugo |
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Figueiredo, Hugo Biscaia, Ricardo Rocha, Vera Teixeira, Pedro |
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Biscaia, Ricardo Rocha, Vera Teixeira, Pedro |
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Figueiredo, Hugo Biscaia, Ricardo Rocha, Vera Teixeira, Pedro |
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Education–job mismatches Higher education Overeducation Overskilling Portugal |
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Education–job mismatches Higher education Overeducation Overskilling Portugal |
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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. |
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Figueiredo, H., Biscaia, R., Rocha, V., & Teixeira, Pedro (2015). Should we start worrying? Mass higher education, skill demand and the increasingly complex landscape of young graduates’ employment. Studies in Higher Education, Vol. 40 (10), 1-21. doi: 10.1080/03075079.2015.1101754. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11328/1447. http://hdl.handle.net/11328/1447 Figueiredo, H., Biscaia, R., Rocha, V., & Teixeira, Pedro (2015). Should we start worrying? Mass higher education, skill demand and the increasingly complex landscape of young graduates’ employment. Studies in Higher Education, Vol. 40 (10), 1-21. doi: 10.1080/03075079.2015.1101754. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11328/1447. http://hdl.handle.net/11328/1447 |
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