Advertising and Labor Market Matching: A Tour through the Times

AbstractThe paper investigates the relation between overeducation and self-employment, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012 and controlling for a list of demographic characteristics and general characteristics of 30 destination countries, it finds that the likelihood of being overeducated decreases for self-employed immigrants, with inconclusive results for self-employed natives. The results shed light on the extent to which immigrants adjust to labor market imperfections and barriers to employment and might help explain the higher incidence of self-employment that immigrants exhibit, when compared to natives. This is the first study to systematically study the nexus between overeducation and self-employment in a comparative framework. Moreover, the paper tests the robustness of the results by employing two different measures of overeducation, contributing to the literature of the measurement of overeducation.

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The role of preferences, attitudes, and personality traits in labor market matching

Economics Letters ◽

10.1016/j.econlet.2019.108718 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 185 ◽

pp. 108718 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Michael Haylock ◽

Patrick Kampkötter

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Labor Market Matching

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ON THE USE OF FIRM FIXED EFFECTS AS A PRODUCTIVITY MEASURE FOR ANALYZING LABOR MARKET MATCHING

Bulletin of Economic Research ◽

10.1111/boer.12173 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 71 (2) ◽

pp. 195-208

Author(s):

Philipp Ehrl

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Fixed Effects ◽

Productivity Measure ◽

Labor Market Matching

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DEACTUALIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION ON THE EXAMPLE OF STUDYING FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Educological discourse ◽

10.28925/2312-5829.2021.2.10 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 130-142

Author(s):

Oleksii Nalyvaiko ◽

Olena Kalistova ◽

Danylo Poliakov

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Labor Market ◽

Foreign Languages ◽

Teaching Staff ◽

Study Programs ◽

National University ◽

Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute ◽

The Times ◽

The Cost

The article analyzes the main reasons for de-actualization of higher education in Ukraine on the example of teaching foreign languages. The authors identified four main reasons for the deactualization of higher education: a difficult socio-economic situation caused by an incompetent organization of the production forces of the Ukrainian economy, low quality of educational services, depopulation of the Ukrainian population and a decrease in the quality of the teaching staff, a permanent increase in the cost of higher education. To confirm our assumptions, we carried out an introduction of students from different parts of Ukraine who study a foreign language. We interviewed six respondents from different universities across Ukraine about the topic: V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Horlivka Institute for Foreign Languages, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Kyiv National Linguistic University, National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute” and Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University. Every respondent was given a name (A-F) in order to keep their anonymity. We have presented the results of the interview. Students say that problems do not always depend on universities, but personal traits of students and teachers and modern tendencies in labor market. We gave some recommendations: the curriculum must be corrected in favor of main subjects or even subjects that will make graduates more appropriate for some posts than people without degree; teaching staff must have special pedagogical degree in order to improve their pedagogical skills; universities need to employ native speakers of taught languages; universities need to elaborate such study programs that will make their graduates more attractive candidates in labor market. The main conclusion must be so: the system of higher education has to keep up with the times and change itself according to labor market, students’ beliefs and modern tendencies in science and technology.

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