Social inequalities in graduates’ labour market outcomes

There are a number of areas of focus within this project: 1. Social inequalities in graduates’ occupational destinations This project aimed to assess whether and to what extent social inequalities in early occupational destinations among graduates exist. In a comparative framework, we asked whether the effect of social origin on graduates’ occupational attainment differs between Germany and the UK, two

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Employment inequalities and labour market trajectories in 11 European countries before and during the 2008 financial crisis

This project, undertaken by doctoral student Dafni Dima, looks at individual labour market trajectories under two comparative perspectives: geographical, comparing 11 European countries and more than 40 European regions; and temporal, comparing the period before the European financial crisis (2005-2008) to the period immediately after the beginning of the crisis (2009-2012). Comparing countries across time, Dafni has explored the effects

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School subject choices and social inequalities in higher education entry and labour market outcomes

This project aimed to assess whether and to what extent social class differentials in entry to higher education and in occupational destinations are mediated by subject choices in secondary education. In Scotland and overall in the UK, students in upper secondary education are free to choose the type and number of subjects. At the same time, universities, in particular the

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Social inequalities in graduates’ occupational destinations

This project aimed to assess whether and to what extent social inequalities in early occupational destinations among graduates exist. In a comparative framework, we asked whether the effect of social origin on graduates’ occupational attainment differs between Germany and the UK, two distinct institutional settings in terms of education system and labour market structure. We asked further whether social inequalities

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Education systems and labour market pathways

This project focused on the link between different education systems and labour market pathways, taking into account historic trends and recent developments. The first study analysed the role of macro-level features of educational systems in the production of specific individual career patterns and labour market pathways in 13 European countries. It aimed to shed light on processes of cumulative (dis-)advantage

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