Skills, Positional Good or Social Closure? The Role of Education across Structural-Institutional Labour Market Settings

Autor/in	van de Werfhorst, Herman G.
Titel	Skills, Positional Good or Social Closure? The Role of Education across Structural-Institutional Labour Market Settings
Quelle	In: Journal of Education and Work, 24 (2011) 5, S.521-548 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-9080
DOI	10.1080/13639080.2011.586994
Schlagwörter	Education Work Relationship; Labor Market; Role of Education; Outcomes of Education; Incidence; Overachievement; Educational Attainment; Foreign Countries; Graduate Surveys; Theories; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Bildungsauftrag; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Vorkommen; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Ausland; Theory; Theorie; Niederlande
Abstract	A theoretical approach is formulated that connects various theories of why education has an effect on labour market outcomes with institutional settings in which such theories provide the most likely mechanism. Three groups of mechanisms are distinguished: education as an indicator of productive skills, as a positional good and as a means for social closure. Conditions were formulated under which labour market behaviour is likely to correspond to the behavioural models underlying the three mechanism groups. To test the theoretical relationship between settings and mechanisms, I formulated hypotheses on setting variation in the (horizontal and vertical) process of matching educational level and field of study to jobs and its consequences for wages. Analyses in which Dutch survey data were combined with industry statistics confirmed the hypotheses. (Contains 1 figure, 4 tables, and 10 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10