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Direct linkValbuena, Javier; Zhu, Yu – British Educational Research Journal, 2018
Exploiting information on foreign qualifications for the first time, we estimate the returns to obtaining UK higher degrees for foreign graduates who migrated to the UK in their 20s. Accounting for direct measures of foreign and UK qualifications and country-of-origin fixed effects, we find substantial returns to obtaining UK (higher) degrees on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, College Graduates, Foreign Students
Okay-Somerville, Belgin; Scholarios, Dora – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
This article aims to understand predictors of objective (i.e. job offers, employment status and employment quality) and subjective (i.e. perceived) graduate employability during university-to-work transitions. Using survey data from two cohorts of graduates in the UK (N = 293), it contrasts three competing theoretical approaches to employability:…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential, Career Counseling, Credentials
Keep, Ewart; James, Susan – Journal of Education Policy, 2012
A focus of Government policy has been the need to ensure that those at the lower end of the labour market invest in their human capital through re-engaging with learning, which has been assumed to enable progress into better-paid employment. This article explores the problems created by "bad jobs" and the evidence for the existence of a…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Labor Market, Public Policy, Vocational Education
Download full textBlanden, Jo; Buscha, Franz; Sturgis, Patrick; Urwin, Peter – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2010
Using the 1991 to 2007 waves of the UK British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), the authors estimate a fixed effects specification that has as outcomes (i) earnings and (ii) an indicator of social position measured using the CAMSIS scale. Adopting a fixed effects specification enables them to isolate the role of lifelong learning on these two…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Outcomes of Education, Income, Social Status
Falk, Ian – 2001
The relationships existing among human capital theory, Australian public policy, literacy education, and the plight of Australia's long-term unemployed were examined. The following topics were considered: human capital theory-based public policies and literacy education; social capital and learning; building and using social capital; the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Case Studies, Community Education
Hyslop-Margison, Emery J.; Welsh, Benjamin H. – 2001
The rhetoric surrounding career education programs was examined by exploring two questions. The first question was which employment sectors anticipate significant job growth and what skill levels and academic competencies were required to work within those sectors. The second question was whether increasing the level of student knowledge and skill…
Descriptors: Career Education, Competence, Competition, Developed Nations
