Master’s degree graduates in Norway: field of study and labour market outcomes

Næss, Terje

doi:10.1080/13639080.2019.1708870

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“…In Germany, the share of females in some engineering majors is below 10%, while reaching nearly 90% in pedagogy (Destatis, 2019). This gender segregation in higher education is a major driver of gender inequality in later life, as male-dominated subjects offer more favorable employment prospects (Gerber & Cheung, 2008;Naess, 2020).…”

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Do students need more information to leave the beaten paths? The impact of a counseling intervention on high school students’ choice of major

Piepenburg

Fervers

2021

High Educ

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Despite an almost endless list of possible study programs and occupational opportunities, high school students frequently focus on pursuing a small number of well-known study programs. Students also often follow gender-typical paths and restrict their attention to study programs in which the majority of students consists of same-gendered people. This choice pattern has far-reaching consequences, including persistent gender segregation and an undersupply of graduates in emerging sectors of the industry. Building on rational choice and social psychological theory, we argue that this pattern partly occurs due to information deficits that may be altered by counseling interventions. To assess this claim empirically, we evaluated the impact of a counseling intervention on the intended choice of major among high school students in Germany by means of a randomized controlled trial (RCT). We estimate the effect by instrumental variable estimation to account for two-sided non-compliance. Our results show that the intervention has increased the likelihood that participants will consider less well-known or gender-atypical study programs, particularly for high school students with lower starting levels of information. Supplementary analyses confirm that a positive impact on information seems to be one of the relevant causal mechanisms. These results suggest that counseling services have the potential to guide high school students to less gender-typical and well-known majors, possibly reducing gender segregation and smoothing labor market transitions after graduation.

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Do students need more information to leave the beaten paths? The impact of a counseling intervention on high school students’ choice of major

Piepenburg

Fervers

2021

High Educ

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“…Studies demonstrated that hard, highly specialised skills that distinguish specific employees are a gateway to higher earnings (e.g. Corominas et al 2010;Naess 2020). The lack of such skills or their insufficient occupational specificity is the reason for difficulties in university-to-work transition for graduates of the so-called soft degree programmes such as humanities or social sciences (Klein 2010).…”

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“…For over a decade, theoretical and empirical studies on the functioning of the labour market and university-to-work transition have been strongly skill-oriented (García-Aracil, Van Der Velden 2008;Storen, Wiers-Jenssen 2016;Giotis 2018;Krafft 2018;Naess 2020;Liwiński, Pastore 2021). Skills are key to selecting candidates for a given post and determining salary levels.…”

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“…In this type of economy, education is considered a springboard to social and material advancement. Consequently, in a knowledge-based economy, a large part of the population views the entire education process (from kindergarten to university) as a long-term, resource-intensive investment in one's social position (Nicolescu, Paun 2009;Mateos-Romero, del Mar Salinas-Jiménez 2017;Šafránková, Šikýř 2017;Ortiz-Gervasi, McGuinness 2018;Naess 2020;Tzanakou et al 2020).…”

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Which skills are the most prized? Analysing monetary value of geographers’ skills on the labour market in six European countries

Piróg,

Hibszer

2023

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The objective of the study is to identify those skills that are actually needed by the labour market and allow university graduates to achieve the highest remuneration. To achieve this objective, the authors monitored, for 18 months, online job postings from six countries addressed to geography graduates. Online job postings are the most up-to-date and reliable source of data about the salaries that employers are willing to offer for specific skills or skillsets. A total of 17,397 advertisements were collected, out of which 7,407 included information about the offered salary. Applying text mining and regression tree (classification and regression tree [CART]) analyses, the authors identified skills that significantly differentiate annual salaries. The group of competences associated with higher earnings includes highly specialised geographic information system (GIS), statistical and geological skills. Lower salaries were linked to some general skills such as communicating in a native language as well as some specialised skills, but only to those related to teaching and conducting scientific research.

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“…Noble Jr. (2000) analyzed the relationship between class size and student achievement and outcomes reflect that the mandate faculty-student ratio can increase the interest among the bachelor and master students. Terje Naess [44] discussed a case study of Norway and found that master degree program plays an important role in employability. The analysis results the link between the economic activities and generic and specialized education.…”

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Benchmarking higher education institutes using data envelopment analysis: capturing perceptions of prospective engineering students

2021

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In today's exceptionally demanding education domain, there is a critical need for higher education institutes to continuously improve their credibility and skill offerings for prospective students. More specifically, institutes need to know how they are evaluated and perceived by the prospective students. Though there are plethora of rating agencies that perform an independent evaluation, their assessment is primarily focused on internal institute practices rather than how students' needs and perceptions be captured. The objective of this study is to evaluate how students rank a higher education institute for taking admission that is the most crucial decision while starting their long-term career. Academic experts and prospective engineering students are surveyed using interviews and convenience sampling method. As a result, the problem evolves as a multi-criteria decision-making problem that considers numerous criteria simultaneously. Considering the relevant criteria as inputs and outputs, the Data Envelopment Analysis is employed to evaluate the weights corresponding to each criterion/factor. The model is then deployed as a linear programming formulation that is tackled using professional linear programming solver. The engineering stream, fees, location, and perceptions of employment opportunities are found as the top parameters that drive the decision of a prospective engineering student. The identified important factors, interests, and capabilities of the student are amalgamated for the selection of the appropriate engineering stream and institute, optimally. The insights are important for engineering institutes to strategize and align their offerings and marketing approach as per the needs and perceptions of prospective students. The study will also be helpful for international universities looking ahead for collaborative and individual opportunities in the Indian education sector.

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Master’s degree graduates in Norway: field of study and labour market outcomes

Cited by 10 publications

References 9 publications

Do students need more information to leave the beaten paths? The impact of a counseling intervention on high school students’ choice of major

Do students need more information to leave the beaten paths? The impact of a counseling intervention on high school students’ choice of major

Which skills are the most prized? Analysing monetary value of geographers’ skills on the labour market in six European countries

Benchmarking higher education institutes using data envelopment analysis: capturing perceptions of prospective engineering students

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