... demonstrates how graduates “reconstruct” their career paths in response to rising unemployment challenges, often abandoning their field of training. Research limitations/implications The reliance on the responses from the purposively sampled participants as respondents for the study could have implications...

...Siti Fatimahwati Pehin Dato Musa Purpose This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the government-incentivised i-Ready programme in alleviating youth unemployment in terms of the transition from education to the labour force market. Design/methodology/approach Focus group discussions...

..., and the filed-of-study mismatch was found to be significantly higher than qualification mismatch” (DHET, 2019 , p. 103). The inference from these findings is providing vocational skills training to youth alone cannot reduce unemployment. This is because young people end up remaining unemployed due to skills...

...Maria Eliophotou Menon; Anastasia Athanasoula-Reppa Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the problems faced by unemployed and underemployed graduate students in a small European country. It focusses on the way young people adjust to unemployment and underemployment...