Universities and the Labour Market

ISBN-13: 9780367742287 / Miękka / 2023 / 148 str.

Magdalena Jelonek

Opis

Debate surrounding the employability of graduates has been around for many decades. Tackling this relevant area of scholarship, this book uses an innovate approach to analyse the relationship between university and the labour market from different perspectives, taking into account both sociological and economic theories.

Spis treści

Part 1 The Transition from Graduation to Work – Theoretical Perspectives  1 Human Capital Theory  2 Education as a Positional Good  3 Social Closure Models  Summary  Part 2 Structural-Institutional Settings, Individual Characteristics and University-Work Transition  4 Employability Skills Agenda, Skills Race and IVth Industrial Revolution  5 Individual Characteristics and University to Work Transition  6 Structural-Institutional Settings And University to Work Transition  Annexe II Summary  Part 3 University-Work Transition And Public Interventions – The Case of Competence Development Program in Poland  7 The Competence Development Program – Genesis and Characteristics  8 The Competence Development Program – Effects of Intervention  Annexe III.1  Summary  Annexe III.2

O autorze

Magdalena Jelonek is a sociologist and assistant professor at the Cracow University of Economics, and researcher (adjunct) at Centre for Evaluation and Analysis of Public Policies at Jagiellonian University, Poland. Her current research interests are: evaluation of public policy, HE sector analysis, human capital, transition from HE to the labour market and methodology of the social sciences (e.g. survey research, quasi-experimental design). She took part in dozens of research projects (as a team member or project leader). One of these projects is the Study of Human Capital in Poland – a series of longitudinal nation-wide surveys for monitoring competence, skill gaps and mismatches in polish labour market.