IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cta/jcppxx/3156.html

Changes in an age of mass higher education

Author

Listed:
  • Dana-Ioana Eremia

Abstract

This study offers an overview of the main theoretical discussions about how the increasing phenomenon higher education massification meets the needs of an emerging economy in post-industrial societies. Based on the decomposition of the concept of social change in several frames of analysis, the study synthesizes how individual life is unstandardized in the context of risk society (Beck) and late modernity (Bauman). The study continues to analyze the social changes occurring in the age of mass higher education in relation to the transition of young people, with a special focus on the professional dimension, the shifts on the tertiary education system and its labour market effects. In a broader perspective, the theoretical analysis underlies the debate about the persistence of social inequality through higher education. Placed at the crossroads between sociology of education and social mobility, the paper wants to capture the extent to which higher education universalization manages the social change, which, in turn, accelerates the economic growth and technological development. Considering that the extension of education not only changed the number of those educated, but it created qualitative changes through social groups, in terms of composition and structure, due to increased selectivity in the labour market. The aim is to show how the new route that young people must travel from school to work is designed, under the pressures of a globalized labor market, and under the impact of an increasing educational homogeneity.

Suggested Citation

  • Dana-Ioana Eremia, 2015. "Changes in an age of mass higher education," Journal of Community Positive Practices, Catalactica NGO, issue 3, pages 70-81.
    • Handle: RePEc:cta:jcppxx:3156
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://jppc.ro/index.php/jppc/article/download/288/257
    File Function: First version, 2015
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Allen, Jim & van der Velden, Rolf, 2001. "Educational Mismatches versus Skill Mismatches: Effects on Wages, Job Satisfaction, and On-the-Job Search," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 53(3), pages 434-452, July.
    2. repec:bla:econom:v:70:y:2003:i:279:p:509-531 is not listed on IDEAS
    3. Aleksander Kucel & Montserrat Vilalta-Bufi & Peter Robert, 2011. "Graduate labor mismatch in Central and Eastern Europe," Working Papers in Economics 259, Universitat de Barcelona. Espai de Recerca en Economia.
    4. Juliet Joseph, 2012. "Perspectives on gender inequality and the barrier of culture on education," Journal of Community Positive Practices, Catalactica NGO, issue 4, pages 769-789.
    5. Tomas Korpi & Henrik Levin, 2001. "Precarious Footing: Temporary Employment as a Stepping Stone out of Unemployment in Sweden," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 15(1), pages 127-148, March.
    6. Kucel, Aleksander & Byrne, Delma, 2008. "Are Over-educated People Insiders or Outsiders? A Case of Job Search Methods and Over-education in UK," Papers WP258, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Bruno Škrinjarić, 2022. "Competence-based approaches in organizational and individual context," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 9(1), pages 1-12, December.
    2. Paulo Aguiar Do Monte, 2011. "Job Dissatisfaction And Labour Turnover:Evidence From Brazil," Anais do XXXVIII Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 38th Brazilian Economics Meeting] 135, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics].
    3. Inmaculada Garc�a-Mainar & V�ctor M. Montuenga-G�mez, 2017. "Subjective educational mismatch and signalling in Spain," Documentos de Trabajo dt2017-03, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Zaragoza.
    4. Perugini, Cristiano, 2020. "Patterns and drivers of household income dynamics in Russia: The role of access to credit," BOFIT Discussion Papers 11/2020, Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT).
    5. Rubb, S., 2003. "Overeducation in the labor market: a comment and re-analysis of a meta-analysis," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 22(6), pages 621-629, December.
    6. Pepka Boyadjieva & Petya Ilieva-Trichkova, 2025. "Vertical Educational (Mis)match and Inclusive Growth: Theoretical Conceptualizations and Evidence from a European Perspective," Societies, MDPI, vol. 15(4), pages 1-21, April.
    7. Mario Schnalzenberger & Nicole Schneeweis & Rudolf Winter-Ebmer & Martina Zweimüller, 2014. "Job Quality and Employment of Older People in Europe," LABOUR, CEIS, vol. 28(2), pages 141-162, June.
    8. Elena Bárcena-Mart�n & Santiago Budr�a & Ana I. Moro-Egido, 2012. "Skill mismatches and wages among European university graduates," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(15), pages 1471-1475, October.
    9. Marco Pecoraro, 2014. "Is There Still a Wage Penalty for Being Overeducated But Well-matched in Skills? A Panel Data Analysis of a Swiss Graduate Cohort," LABOUR, CEIS, vol. 28(3), pages 309-337, September.
    10. Shen, Jie & Tang, Chunyong, 2018. "How does training improve customer service quality? The roles of transfer of training and job satisfaction," European Management Journal, Elsevier, vol. 36(6), pages 708-716.
    11. Kampelmann, Stephan & Rycx, François, 2012. "The impact of educational mismatch on firm productivity: Evidence from linked panel data," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 31(6), pages 918-931.
    12. Domadenik, Polona & Far?nik, Daša & Pastore, Francesco, 2013. "Horizontal Mismatch in the Labour Market of Graduates: The Role of Signalling," IZA Discussion Papers 7527, IZA Network @ LISER.
    13. Zhu, Rong, 2011. "NILS Working paper no 170. The impact of major--job mismatch on college graduates' early career earnings," NILS Working Papers 26072, National Institute of Labour Studies.
    14. Zainizam Zakariya & Khoo Yin Yin, 2016. "Over- and Underskilling in the Malaysian Labour Market: Evidence from the 2003–2012 Labour Force Survey (LFS)," International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, vol. 6(11), pages 203-223, November.
    15. Francis Green & Nicholas Tsitsianis, 2004. "Can the Changing Nature of Jobs Account for National Trends in Job Satisfaction?," Studies in Economics 0406, School of Economics, University of Kent.
    16. Catherine Béduwé & Jean-François Giret, 2011. "Mismatch of vocational graduates : what penalty on French labour market," Post-Print halshs-00738007, HAL.
    17. Mohammed Alzubaidi, 2020. "The impact of overeducation on job outcomes: Evidence from Saudi Arabia," International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147-4478), Center for the Strategic Studies in Business and Finance, vol. 9(4), pages 104-120, July.
    18. Gianni Betti & Francesca Gagliardi & Giulio Ghellini & Gabriele Lombardi, 2025. "Overqualification unreveled: a multidimensional and fuzzy set analysis," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 59(2), pages 1103-1121, April.
    19. Cueto, Begona & Pruneda, Gabriel, 2015. "Job Satisfaction of Wage and Self-Employed workers. Do preferences make a difference?," MPRA Paper 65432, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    20. David Aristei & Cristiano Perugini, 2022. "Credit and income mobility in Russia," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 20(3), pages 639-669, September.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cta:jcppxx:3156. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Ene Mihai The email address of this maintainer does not seem to be valid anymore. Please ask Ene Mihai to update the entry or send us the correct address (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.jppc.ro/?lang=en .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.