What Do Educational Mismatches Tell Us about Skill Mismatches? A Cross-Country Analysis

Autor/inn/en	Allen, Jim; De Weert, Egbert
Titel	What Do Educational Mismatches Tell Us about Skill Mismatches? A Cross-Country Analysis
Quelle	In: European Journal of Education, 42 (2007) 1, S.59-73 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0141-8211
DOI	10.1111/j.1465-3435.2007.00283.x
Schlagwörter	Graduate Surveys; Employment Qualifications; Higher Education; Comparative Analysis; Education Work Relationship; Job Skills; Wages; Productivity; Foreign Countries + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Employment qualification; Vocational qualification; Vocational qualifications; Berufliche Qualifikation; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Produktive Fertigkeit; Wage; Löhne; Produktivität; Ausland
Abstract	The relationship between higher education and employment is commonly interpreted in terms of the extent to which the higher education sector is providing graduates with the knowledge and skills to match employment needs. It is assumed that a mismatch between working in a job and level or field of education limits the use of skills, with adverse effects on both productivity and earnings. This article examines this assumption on the basis of five countries from the European graduate survey (CHEERS data). Although the analysis shows that educational and skill mismatches are indeed related, mismatches by no means imply mismatches between available and required knowledge and skills. The results indicate that traditional approaches of mismatches have to be adapted to more flexible forms of relationships between higher education and work. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10