Smooth Path or Long and Winding Road? : How Institutions Shape the Transition from Higher Education to Work / / Kathrin Leuze

• Autore: Leuze Kathrin, Prof. Dr.
• Pubblicazione: Leverkusen, : Budrich UniPress, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280)
• Soggetto topico: national institutions; labour market; higher education; Germany; Great Britain
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Smooth Path or Long andWinding Road? How Institutions Shape the Transition from Higher Education to Work -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Graduate Employment in the Era of Mass Higher Education and European Harmonisation -- 2.1 The Legacy of Mass Higher Education -- 2.2 The Changing Nature of Labour Markets -- 2.3 Graduate Employment in Western Europe -- 3. The Institutional Embeddedness of Graduate Employment - An Analytical Framework -- 3.1 The Institutional Embeddedness of Life Course Transitions -- 3.1.1 The Matching Problem as Life Course Transition Process -- 3.1.2 The Institutional Embeddedness of Life Courses -- 3.1.3 Institutional Effects and the Transition from Higher Education to Work -- 3.2 The Institutional Determinants of Graduate Employment -- 3.2.1 The Importance of Institutions for Explaining Vocational Training to Work Transitions -- 3.2.2 The Institutional Determinants of the Transition from Higher Education to Work -- 3.2.3 Political Economies, Institutional Complementarities and the Transition Process -- 3.2.4 Assessing Continuity and Change in Different Political Economies -- 3.3 Embedding the Transition from Higher Education to Work into Varieties of Capitalism -- 4. Analysing Graduate Employment Trajectories - The Methodological Approach -- 4.1 Motives and Means of Cross-National Comparisons -- 4.2 The Country Cases: Germany and Britain -- 4.3 Quantitative Data Analysis of Individual Transitions from Higher Education to Work -- 4.3.1 The Data Sources: German Socio-Economic Panel and two British Cohort Studies -- 4.3.2 The Method: Event History Analysis -- 4.4 Operationalisations of Concepts and Variables -- 5. Higher Education and Labour Market Institutions in Germany and Britain -- 5.1 Stratification in Higher Education: Vertical and Horizontal Institutional Differentiation. ; 5.1.1 The Road to Mass Higher Education -- 5.1.2 Institutional Differentiation and the Stratification of Higher Education -- 5.1.3 Pathways into Higher Education -- 5.1.4 Stratification of German and British Higher Education: Diverse Trends -- 5.2 Occupational Specificity: Generalist and Specialist Curricular Orientations -- 5.2.1 Historical Frames: Professional vs. Liberal Higher Education -- 5.2.2 General Objectives of Higher Education Institutions -- 5.2.3 Occupation-specific Training of Different Types of Degrees and Fields of Study -- 5.2.4 Professional and Liberal Orientations in German and British Higher Education -- 5.3 Graduate Labour Market Segmentation: Between Professional and Public Spheres -- 5.3.1 Higher Education and the Social Closure of Professional Labour Markets -- 5.3.2 Public Services between Status Protection and New Public Management -- 5.3.3 Trends in Public Sector Employment -- 5.3.4 The Social Closure of Graduate Labour Markets in Germany and Britain -- 5.4 Labour Market Regulation and the Protection of (Un-)Employment -- 5.4.1 Employment Protection Legislation and the Stability of Employment Relations -- 5.4.2 Unemployment Protection and the Level of Skill Protection -- 5.4.3 Strictness and Flexibility of German and British Labour Markets -- 6. Graduate Employment between Elitist Ideals and the Realities of Mass Higher Education -- 6.1 Early Employment Patterns after Graduation -- 6.2 Institutional Differentiation and the Stratification of Labour Market Returns -- 6.2.1 Labour Market Returns of Initial Employment Positions -- 6.2.2 Mechanisms of Stratification and the Transition to Employment -- 6.3 Occupational Specificity and the Match between Field of Study and Occupation -- 6.3.1 Transition to a Job in an Occupation Matching the Field of Study -- 6.3.2 Occupational Mobility after First Placement. ; 6.4 The Importance of Occupational and Internal Labour Markets for Graduate Employment -- 6.4.1 Labour Market Segments and Entry Ports after Graduation -- 6.4.2 The Educational Determinants of Employment in Entry Port Occupations -- 6.4.3 Mobility Within and Between Professional and Public Labour Market Segments -- 6.5 Labour Market Regulation and the Stability of Employment Positions -- 6.5.1 Stability of Initial Employment Positions after Graduation -- 6.5.2 Occurrence and Effects of Unemployment -- 6.5.3 Upward and Downward Labour Market Mobility -- 7. Smooth Path or Long and Winding Road? -- 7.1 The Importance of National Institutions for the Transition Process -- 7.2 Building Institutional Complementarities between Higher Education and Work -- 7.3 National Paths in Transition? -- References -- Appendix -- Appendix A: Description of German and British Data Sets -- Appendix B: The Erikson-Goldthorpe Class Scheme -- Appendix C: The New Casmin Educational Classification -- Appendix D: Vocational Training in Germany and Britain -- Appendix E: Gender-specific Transition Patterns -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations.
• Sommario/riassunto: The book uses a comparative study of Germany and Britain to reveal how national institutions shape the labour market careers of higher education graduates. It identifies four institutional spheres that are important: the structure of higher education systems, the content of study, the structure of graduate labour markets, and labour market flexibility. Due to country differences, the transition from higher education to work in Germany follows a smooth path, while in Britain it is more comparable to a long and winding road.
• Titolo autorizzato: Smooth Path or Long and Winding Road
• ISBN: 9783940755421; 3940755427
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910284439403321
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