Hard Lessons for Lifelong Learners? Age and Experience in the Graduate Labour Market

Autor/inn/en	Purcell, Kate; Wilton, Nick; Elias, Peter
Titel	Hard Lessons for Lifelong Learners? Age and Experience in the Graduate Labour Market
Quelle	In: Higher Education Quarterly, 61 (2007) 1, S.57-82 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-5224
DOI	10.1111/j.1468-2273.2007.00338.x
Schlagwörter	Lifelong Learning; Age Differences; Equal Opportunities (Jobs); Wages; Job Satisfaction; Undergraduate Study; Graduates; Labor Market; Employment Opportunities; Career Development; Education Work Relationship; Labor Supply; Adult Learning; Nontraditional Students; Student Characteristics; Outcomes of Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Equal opportunity; Equal opportunities; Job; Jobs; Chancengleichheit; Beruf; Wage; Löhne; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Grundstudium; Graduate; Absolvent; Absolventin; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Berufschance; Beschäftigungschance; Berufsentwicklung; Labour Supply; Arbeitskräfteangebot; Adulte education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg
Abstract	The expansion of the higher education system and widening access to undergraduate study has led to growing diversity within the graduate labour supply, including increasing numbers who studied for their degrees as mature students. Analysis of graduates entering the labour market prior to the major expansion in the early 1990s indicated that those over the age of 30 had considerably more difficulty than younger graduates in accessing the career opportunities for which their education had equipped them. Is this still the case for more recent graduates? Drawing on a major qualitative and quantitative study of a class of graduates who completed their undergraduate degree courses in 1995, this paper explores early career development and employment outcomes according to age at graduation. Although we find considerable diversity among all age groups, mature graduates were more likely than their younger peers to experience difficulty in accessing appropriate employment, had a lower rate of earnings growth and expressed higher levels of dissatisfaction with their jobs. (Author).
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