Graduate Careers during the Post-Communist Transition in the South Caucasus

Autor/inn/en	Tholen, Jochen; Huseynzade, Dilara; Ibrahimov, Anar; Pollock, Gary; Roberts, Ken
Titel	Graduate Careers during the Post-Communist Transition in the South Caucasus
Quelle	In: Educational Research and Reviews, 5 (2010) 3, S.108-118 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1990-3839
Schlagwörter	Careers; Economic Progress; Higher Education; Labor Market; College Graduates; Public Sector; Gender Differences; Comparative Analysis; Statistical Analysis; Qualitative Research; Foreign Countries; Employment Opportunities; Professional Occupations; Compensation (Remuneration); Family (Sociological Unit); Marriage; Social Systems; Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia Republic + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Career; Karriere; Economic growth; Wirtschaftswachstum; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Öffentlicher Sektor; Geschlechterkonflikt; Statistische Analyse; Qualitative Forschung; Ausland; Berufschance; Beschäftigungschance; Berufsklassifikation; Abfindung; Kompensation; Lohnausgleich; Familie; Ehe; Social system; Soziales System; Armenien; Aserbaidschan
Abstract	This paper uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative evidence to assess the ways and extent to which, by 2007/2008, higher education graduates in the South Caucasus capitals were, and were not, deriving labour market benefits from their higher education. The quantitative evidence is from representative samples of approximately 200 in the age range 31-37 who were living in each of the three capital cities (Baku, Tbilisi and Yerevan) in 2005-2007. The qualitative evidence is from 10 follow-up interviews in 2008 with selected higher education graduates from the preceding quantitative surveys. The evidence shows that the benefits of higher education were: much superior chances of having been continuously employed since entering the labour market, being in full-time employment in 2007/2008, and holding a non-manual job. Graduates were also more likely than non-graduates to have jobs in the public sector. However, the earnings of graduate employees were not consistently (across all three cities and among males and females) higher than the earnings of employed non-graduates, there was considerable under-employment among graduates in all three capitals, and graduate females who had married (between 70 and 76% in the three capitals had married by age 30) had nearly all withdrawn from the workforce. The paper explains how family and housing practices in the South Caucasus were requiring female graduates to prioritise marriage rather than employment careers in their life plans. We conclude that while higher education was conferring definite labour market benefits for both males and females, and in all three cities, these benefits varied by gender. Moreover, graduate under-employment had not been eliminated, and looked unlikely to be eliminated despite the strong economic growth that was continuing in all three countries. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10