Employability and Mobility in the Valorisation of Higher Education Qualifications: The Experiences and Reflections of Chinese Students and Graduates

Autor/inn/en	Mok, Ka Ho; Wen, Zhuoyi; Dale, Roger
Titel	Employability and Mobility in the Valorisation of Higher Education Qualifications: The Experiences and Reflections of Chinese Students and Graduates
Quelle	In: Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 38 (2016) 3, S.264-281 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1360-080X
DOI	10.1080/1360080X.2016.1174397
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Employment Potential; College Students; College Graduates; Social Mobility; Labor Market; Higher Education; Education Work Relationship; Qualifications; Employment Experience; Human Capital; Supply and Demand; Salary Wage Differentials; Economically Disadvantaged; Access to Education; Global Approach; Rural to Urban Migration; Income; Study Abroad; Employment Patterns; Credentials; China; Taiwan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Collegestudent; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Soziale Mobilität; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Qualifikation; Qualifikationsstufe; Occupational experience; Job experience; Work experience; Berufserfahrung; Humankapital; Bedarfsplanung; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Globales Denken; Landflucht; Einkommen; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Studienbuch
Abstract	In the last two decades, we have witnessed a rapid expansion of higher education in Mainland China and Taiwan, recording a significant increase in higher education enrolments in these two Chinese societies. The massification of higher education in China and Taiwan has inevitably resulted in an oversupply of university graduates, with growing social concerns for skills mismatches being found in the labour market, stagnant graduate employment and social mobility. This article critically examines how university students and graduates in these two Chinese societies reflect upon their employment experiences. Human capital theory predicts that other things being equal, raising participation in higher education will initially increase inequality as rates of return rise, and then it will reduce inequality as expansion reaches mass levels and rates of return decline. If the output of graduates outpaces the demand for their skills, which appears to be the current case in many countries, then supply and demand pressures reduce the pay premium for degrees and lower income inequalities. However, this study clearly demonstrates that the massification and the universalisation of higher education in Mainland China and Taiwan, respectively, have actually intensified inequality. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01