School-to-Work Linkages, Educational Mismatches, and Labor Market Outcomes

Bol, Thijs; Eller, Christina Ciocca; Werfhorst, Herman G. van de; DiPrete, Thomas A.

doi:10.1177/0003122419836081

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“…Thus, these employees receive wage disadvantages compared with employees with better skill matches. Recent work focussing on the matching process and its consequences show such a pattern empirically (Nordin et al 2010;Rohrbach-Schmidt and Tiemann 2011;Bol et al 2019).…”

Section: Occupations Skills and Wagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Occupations and Inequality: Theoretical Perspectives and Mechanisms

Haupt

Ebner

2020

Köln Z Soziol

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People’s occupations are strongly related to multiple dimensions of inequality, such as inequalities in wages, health, autonomy, or risk of temporary employment. The theories and mechanisms linking occupations to these inequalities are subject to debate. We review the recent evidence on the relationship between occupations and inequality and discuss the following four overarching theoretical perspectives: occupations and skills, occupations and tasks, occupations and institutions, and occupations and culture. We show that each perspective has strong implications for how scholars conceptualize occupations and which occupational characteristics are seen as relevant when explaining inequalities. Building on this, we review and critically examine the relevant theories related to and the mechanisms of the relationship between occupation and wage inequality, as an example. We conclude that there is sound empirical knowledge available on the relationships between occupations and inequality; however, some of the mechanisms are still unclear.

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Section: Occupations Skills and Wagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, employers compete for them with higher wages. The literature offers some evidence for this claim (Haupt 2012;Bol et al 2019;Ehlert 2017).…”

Section: Occupations Institutions and Wagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Occupations and Inequality: Theoretical Perspectives and Mechanisms

Haupt

Ebner

2020

Köln Z Soziol

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“…are linked. When comparing similar educational pathways across the two countries (say, university-educated workers in health), the French skill formation system often performs equally well in leading graduates to occupations that are a good fit to their skills (see also Bol, Eller, et al 2019) as the German qualificational space. Their analysis illuminated the fact that educational systems can differ both on a compositional dimension (the distribution of students across educational tracks), and in terms of their structure of association-the strength of linkage.…”

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Training Regimes and Skill Formation in France and Germany An Analysis of Change Between 1970 and 2010

Elbers¹,

Bol

DiPrete³

2020

Social Forces

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How do educational systems prepare workers for the labor market? Stratification research has often made a distinction between two ideal-types: “qualificational spaces,” exemplified by Germany with a focus on vocational education, and “organizational spaces,” exemplified by France with a focus on general education. However, most studies that investigated this distinction did so by focusing only on the size of the vocational sector, not on whether graduates with a vocational degree actually link strongly to the labor market. Moreover, they often studied male workers only, ignoring potential gender differences in how school-to-work linkages are established. In this paper, we map the change in education–occupation linkage in France and Germany between 1970 and 2010 using an approach that can distinguish between changes in rates and changes in the structure of school-to-work linkages. Surprisingly, we find that the German vocational system in 1970 was not, on average, substantially more efficient in allocating graduates to specific occupations than the French system. This finding is a major departure from earlier results, and it shows that the differences between 1970’s France and Germany, on which the qualificational-organizational distinction is based, are smaller than previously assumed. Partly, this is due to the fact that the female labor force was omitted from earlier analyses. We thus show that ignoring the female workforce has consequences for today’s conception of skill formation systems, particularly because a large share of educational expansion is caused by an increase in female enrollment in (higher) education.

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“…In the work of the Netherlands scientists Boi T., Eller CC., Van de Werfhorst HG, DiPrete TA (2019) presents the results of a study in France, Germany and the United States, which shows that "workers have higher earnings when they are engaged in occupations which correspond to their level of education and field of study" [2]. The authors presented evidence that the level of remuneration is higher where the education of workers is professionally consistent with the positions held.…”

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The Impact of Education on the Income of the Economically Active Population in the European Union

Kuznetsova¹

2019

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education Science and Social Development (ESSD 2019)

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In this article, we confirm that education is the main social catalyst for people from different social backgrounds. There is a direct connection between the conscious birth of children and the education of people. The higher the level of education, the higher the income of workers, the higher the labor productivity and speed of economic development, the higher the intensity of export. We found that over the past ten years, the population in the fears of the European Union has increased by an average of 3%. Along with the increase in the number and density of the population, the employment of people with higher education (level 5-8) is steadily increasing. It is important to say that in Europe as a whole, the trends we have identified characterize the steady demand of the labor market for raising the level of education of labor resources. Based on Eurostat data, we calculated that the average level of personnel costs in 2017 in the European Union was on average 37.4 thousand euros. The difference between the maximum level of personnel costs in the field of electricity, gas, steam, the highest value of which is noted in Austria and the minimum-in the area of accommodation and catering services in Bulgaria is 30 times. For the same period of time, people receive a very differentiated income and have different motivation to work, as well as different opportunities to recover physical and mental costs. Despite the general growth trend in the share of educated economically active people in the countries of the European Union, about 9-10% of them are poor people. Our correlation-regression analysis showed that the more educated people, the higher the average level of their costs and the fewer people who can be classified as "poor". Thus, education is the main factor in improving the competitiveness of any country and is the main wealth of the people.

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School-to-Work Linkages, Educational Mismatches, and Labor Market Outcomes

Cited by 106 publications

References 55 publications

Occupations and Inequality: Theoretical Perspectives and Mechanisms

Occupations and Inequality: Theoretical Perspectives and Mechanisms

Training Regimes and Skill Formation in France and Germany An Analysis of Change Between 1970 and 2010

The Impact of Education on the Income of the Economically Active Population in the European Union

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