1st Edition
Universities and the Labour Market Graduate Transitions from Education to Employment
Part I. The transition from graduation to work – theoretical perspectives
Chapter I.1. Human Capital Theory
Chapter I.2. Education as a positional good
Chapter I.3. Social Closure Models
Summary
Part II. Structural-institutional settings, individual characteristics and university-work transition
Chapter II.1. Employability skills agenda, skills race and IV Industrial Revolution
Chapter II.2. Individual characteristics and university to work transition
Chapter II.3. Structural-institutional settings and university to work transition
Summary
Part III. University-work transition and public interventions - the case of Competence Development Program in Poland
Chapter III.1. The Competence Development Program – genesis and characteristics
Chapter III.2. The Competence Development Program – effects of intervention
Annexe III.2
Summary
Annex III
Afterword
Biography
Magdalena Jelonek is a sociologist and assistant professor at the Cracow University of Economics, and researcher (adjunct) at Centre for Evaluation and Analysis of Public Policies at Jagiellonian University, Poland. Her current research interests are: evaluation of public policy, HE sector analysis, human capital, transition from HE to the labour market and methodology of the social sciences (e.g. survey research, quasi-experimental design). She took part in dozens of research projects (as a team member or project leader). One of these projects is the Study of Human Capital in Poland – a series of longitudinal nation-wide surveys for monitoring competence, skill gaps and mismatches in polish labour market.
