... who secured their first job after graduation through a university-provided careers service with those who entered employment through alternative routes. Drawing on the richness of the dataset, we employ an instrumental-variable approach to address bias arising from the non-random sorting of graduates...

... graduation. The authors employ a multinomial endogenous treatment model that enables controlling for self-selection into pre-graduation working activities. Findings Pre-graduation work activities that are related to the field of study are generally beneficial for employability and job stability. Work...

...Izabela Marzec; Agata Austen; Aldona Frączkiewicz-Wronka; Bogna Zacny Purpose The increased expectations regarding job performance accompanied by changes in employment relationships in public organizations require special concern for the employability enhancement of their workers. Literature...

... of expertise during their career. As a result, employees tend to lose an overview of their work qualities and possibilities to be widely deployed (Nauta et al., 2005 ; Tisch, 2015). Therefore, Tisch (2015) states that employability increases in terms of one’s own job but decreases for other...

... between adaptive readiness (proactive personality and conscientiousness), career adaptability, adapting behaviors (career planning and proactive skill development) and adaptation outcomes (employability and in-role performance). Research limitations/implications The cross-sectional design limits...

...Professor John Burgess and Professor Julia Connell; Sophie Hennekam Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine self-perceived employability, the factors that influence this, the chances to find a job and retirement preferences of two generations older workers with a low occupational status...

... pedagogical approach, a tool that is lacking today but is vital in providing education processes that enable students to acquire and develop the competencies required by modern production techniques. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Education Wages Competencies Employability...

... process, transition to the labour market and employment characteristics, we are searching for the differences in determinants of job satisfaction across fields of study [1] . In this paper we use the domain structure that was adopted in the DEHEMS Project. Study domains were divided into six groups...

... institutions. In recent years this has been increasingly perceived as a problem of graduates’ employment and employability. Particular attention is given to the question of HE governance and management responsibility for developing graduates’ competencies and their early careers. Among HE stakeholders...

... of employment for different fields of study and propensity score matching to investigate the effect of different study programmes in each field of education on early career outcomes, such as being employed within the first three months of graduation and the first nine months of graduation. Findings...