Human capital sorting: The “when” and “who” of the sorting of educated workers to urban regions

Ahlin, Lina; Andersson, Martin; Thulin, Per

doi:10.1111/jors.12366

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“…There are many labour market theories in macroeconomics dealing with matching (Fedorets, Lottmann, & Stops, 2019) or human capital sorting (Ahlin, Andersson, & Thulin, 2018), which aim at improving employment rates and quality of employment. However, individuals' free will always plays a role in employment issues, such as a personal preference in the choice of a geographical location to work and live (Sumell, Stephan, & Adams, 2009), suggesting the importance of a microeconomic approach through the agency theory (Lam, 2010;Lam & de Campos, 2015).…”

Section: Employability and Structuration Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Doctoral education in the entrepreneurial university : enhanced employability?

Germain-Alamartine

2020

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations

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This dissertation explores the issue of employability of doctorate holders through the theoretical lens of the model of the entrepreneurial university. It starts from the observation that there is a bottleneck in the academic labour market in many countries, making it increasingly difficult for recent doctoral graduates to engage in an academic career. Traditionally, doctoral education was designed for a career in academia; but the employment situations of doctorate holders call for more relevance of doctoral education and doctoral-level skills on the non-academic labour market. The main argument of this dissertation is that the openness and the interactions of the entrepreneurial university with its environment, in particular its region, makes it a relevant model to enhance the employability of doctorate holders outside academia. The thesis is based on five publications written either solely by the author or in collaboration with other scholars, mostly case studies compiling both qualitative and quantitative data and approaches. Three main findings can be highlighted from the research: (i) the entrepreneurial university increases its socioeconomic impact by building an alignment with regional stakeholders over the years and thanks to key individuals, by retaining human and social capital within itself and by broadening the scope of its activities and stakeholders; (ii) doctorate holders' employability is key in the entrepreneurial university's regional socioeconomic impact, as they are increasingly employed outside academia but are likely to experience job mismatches in this situation, mainly related to education and skills; (iii) regional stakeholders can take different types of initiatives to enhance the employability of doctorate holders, and increase the entrepreneurial university's socioeconomic impact: more specifically, doctorate holders and non-academic employers can get to know each other better; intermediaries such as Science Parks can support them through the creation of meeting places. The dissertation contributes to the literature on the entrepreneurial university by focusing on the population of doctoral students and doctorate holders, at the crossroads of its three missions (education, research and 'third mission'). It also suggests the following main recommendations: to universities, beyond adapting the content of doctoral education to the needs of non-academic employers, put emphasis on marketing it to them, so that they understand what it is worth; to doctorate holders, expand their knowledge of career possibilities, and behave entrepreneurially by initiating activities to complement what could be missing in their education; to non-academic employers, collaborate with universities and communicate their needs to them to influence the design of curricula.

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Section: Employability and Structuration Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Doctoral education in the entrepreneurial university : enhanced employability?

Germain-Alamartine

2020

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations

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“…From a local perspective, an attractive feature of a successful cluster of TEIs is their apparent ability to shape economic geography by drawing into the region and retaining research and development (R&D) activities (Andersson, Gråsjö, & Karlsson, 2009;Jaffe, 1989) and highly skilled workers (Abel & Deitz, 2012;Ahlin, Andersson, & Thulin, 2018;Beeson & Montgomery, 1993;Bound, Groen, Kézdi, & Turner, 2004;Groen, 2004;Winters, 2011). Crucially, unlikely, say, human capital effects, location effects are a zero-sum game where one region's success draws in resources from another.…”

Section: Literature Review: Regional Economic Development and Tertiarmentioning

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Will the regional concentration of tertiary education persist? The case of Europe in a period of rising participation

Hermannsson

Scandurra

Graziano

2019

Regional Studies, Regional Science

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The economic impact of tertiary education is important for regional development, and whilst participation rates have increased, it is unclear whether this has benefited regions equally. The paper analyses a panel of European regions to determine how the geography of tertiary education has evolved between 2002 and 2012. The results show a mixed picture. Overall, the system is characterized by path dependency, with the past being the best predictor of the future. There are some signs that the most lagging regions in 2002 are catching up, with some benefiting from recently opened institutions. Meanwhile, the very top-performing regions are breaking away from the rest, showing above-average growth, especially in the case capital regions. This work contributes to the ongoing research on the role of higher education in fostering regional economic development, and the emerging inequalities across European regions.

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“…Spread effects could, for example, be generated from "rural" entrepreneurs having access to nearby large cities with agglomeration benefits-e.g., access to a diversity of business services, while paying lower rents. As skilled workers are also typically drawn to urban areas (Ahlin et. al 2018), access to skilled workers for a startup is enhanced in the vicinity of larger urban centers, supporting start-ups in "rural" areas closer to urban centers.…”

Section: Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Local Rates of New Firm Formation: An Empirical Exploration Using Swedish Data

Andersson

Lavesson²,

Partridge³

2019

SSRN Journal

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Human capital sorting: The “when” and “who” of the sorting of educated workers to urban regions

Cited by 29 publications

References 57 publications

Doctoral education in the entrepreneurial university : enhanced employability?

Doctoral education in the entrepreneurial university : enhanced employability?

Will the regional concentration of tertiary education persist? The case of Europe in a period of rising participation

Local Rates of New Firm Formation: An Empirical Exploration Using Swedish Data

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