Higher education expansion and unskilled labour market outcomes.

Autor/in	Oppedisano, Veruska
Titel	Higher education expansion and unskilled labour market outcomes. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Expansion der Hochschulbildung und berufliche Integration von Ungelernten.
Quelle	In: Economics of education review, (2014) 40, S. 38-50Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-7757
DOI	10.1016/j.econedurev.2014.03.005
Schlagwörter	Sekundarbereich; Beschäftigungseffekt; Einkommenseffekt; Arbeitslosigkeit; Berufliche Integration; Nicht formal Qualifizierter; Niedrig Qualifizierter; Hochschulbildung; Quote; Hochschulabsolvent; Schulabgänger; Ungelernter Arbeitnehmer; Italien
Abstract	"The increasing demand for higher education reduces the supply and changes the composition of unskilled secondary school graduates, and it may therefore affect their labour market outcomes. However, there is little empirical evidence on these effects. This paper analyses a large-scale expansion of higher education supply in Italy, which occurred at the end of the 1990s, to estimate the effects of the policy on the secondary school graduates' probability of being inactive, employed, unemployed, and on their wages. Robust difference-in-differences estimates show that the probability of being inactive decreases by 4.5 percent, as the policy significantly displaces individuals from inactivity. Those shifting across educational level have middle ability but favourable parental background, and would have worked in the family firm, or waited for a public competition had the expansion not took place, indicating that a new campus nearby induces mainly those with a low opportunity cost to enrol in university. Lack of significant effects on the labour market outcomes of the workforce provides evidence in favour of the human capital hypothesis. However, the policy may have induced too little variation in the workforce to distinguish between the human capital and signalling theory." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2016/1