Is Mass Higher Education Working? Evidence from the Labour Market Experiences of Recent Graduates

By P. Elias, K. Purcell. National Institute Economic Review, 2004

161 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Overqualification, Job Dissatisfaction, and Increasing Dispersion in the Returns to Graduate Education (2010, methodology): “Recent studies find suggestive evidence of modestly declining returns in recent years, while demonstrating that the average returns to graduate education remain high (Sloane, 2003; Elias and Purcell, 2004; and Walker and Zhu, 2008).”
Unrewarded careers in the creative class: The strange case of bohemian graduates (2010, unknown): “Following Elias and Purcell (2004a) we identify five possible types of jobs: traditional graduate, modern graduate, new graduate, niche graduate and non-graduate.”
Employing discourse: universities and graduate ‘employability’ (2010, background): “researchers such as Elias and Purcell (2002) indicates that, in actuality, less-”
Graduate Employability, 'Soft Skills' Versus 'Hard' Business Knowledge: A European Study (2008, background): “A willingness to learn and accept responsibility (Adapted from: McLarty, 1998; Tucker et al., 2000; Nabi, 2003; Elias and Purcell, 2004).”