Differential effects of colleges on the labour market success of their graduates (original) (raw)

University quality and labour market outcomes

Applied Economics, 2003

This paper uses proxies for university quality derived from Performance Indicators to evaluate the impact of university quality on the early labour market outcome of a cohort of recent Italian graduates. Institutional research quality is found to have a negative effect on the probability that both male and female graduates will be overeducated. Additionally, research inputs are positively related to men's wages. In contrast, teaching quality does not appear to enhance students' economic success.

Does university choice drive graduates' employability?

2010

Universities have come under increasing pressure to become key drivers of economic development in the age of the knowledge economy. Yet we know very little about the impact of university quality and scientific excellence on the probability of graduates finding jobs. This paper investigates the determinants of Italian graduates' employability 1--year and 3--years after graduation, with special reference to university quality measured in terms of research performance. Our results confirm that the 'better' the university, the higher the likelihood that graduates will be employed. We also observe strong effects associated with field of study, and wide regional differences.

Analysis: Labour Market Success of Vocational and Higher Education Graduates

2016

On its educational statistics website www.haridussilm.ee, the Ministry of Education and Research has published data on the labour market conditions and income from work of 2005-2013 graduates of VET and higher education as of 2011-2014 by educational institution and field of study.  Educational attainment is valuable as each subsequent level contributes to an increase in income.

Higher education and the labour market: an introduction

Oxford Review of Education

Higher education and the labour market: an introduction 'Tertiary education has seen unprecedented growth in the past decade, but there is a significant share of graduates who struggle to find good jobs, while employers say they cannot find the people with the skills they need. The tertiary education sector needs to reinvent itself to give people greater ownership over what they learn, how they learn, when they learn and where they learn to meet tomorrow's demand for knowledge and skills' (Andreas Schleicher, Director, OECD

University Outcomes and Employability: is a Harmonisation Feasible?

2011

Planning the tertiary educational offer in terms also, even if not only, of the actual numerical outcome, has been so far a somehow vexed question. Recently, though, formal requirement for sustaining youth placement, harassed by the long lasting difficult economic situation, has met the great and successful effort by national statistics agencies in identifying the labour market demand with reasonable approximation. The paper explores some statistical methods and informative sources apt to include into university trajectories also, even not only as easily understood, the perspective number of positions for graduates required by the labour market. The purpose is to face the issue of an efficient dual cooperative communication between the academic and the working spheres, in the direction of matching students' professional aspirations and their fulfilment, in new ways that help reduce the incidence of phenomena linked to rushed choices among graduates at work.

Higher Education Learning Outcome and Its Aplicability on the Labour Market

2018

The present study aims to assess the challenges faced by the Transylvanian Hungarian higher education system and to recommend possible solutions to efficiently overcome them. The higher education market has many players; there are several models which show the challenges of student enrolment and marketing, collaboration with the business environment, and the assessment methods of student's satisfaction. More attention should be paid to graduates' feedback on labour market experiences and there is also a need to integrate these feedbacks into future developments of universities.