International Journal of Manpower: Volume 44 Issue 6

Determinants of school-to-work transition: global outlook

Misbah Tanveer Choudhry, Francesco Pastore

Part 2 of the Special Issue on “School-to-Work Transition Around the World: The Effect of the Pandemic Recession-Global Perspective” focuses on the global panorama of…

School-to-work transition, early career outcomes and income dynamics across cohorts in Italy: does education pay?

Michele Raitano, Francesca Subioli

The work compares across cohorts and different levels of education the early-stage evolution of several labour market outcomes, with the aim of studying whether and to what extent…

Young entrepreneurs and skills mismatch in school-to-work transition: empirical evidence from innovation processes managed in Italian NTBFs

Diego Matricano

Diversity in entrepreneurship has become a noteworthy topic of research since consistent differences – and few similarities, if any – exist among entrepreneurial profiles. The…

Early career gender wage gaps among university graduates in Russia

Victor Rudakov, Margarita Kiryushina, Hugo Figueiredo, Pedro Nuno Teixeira

The aim of the research is to estimate the level of the early career gender wage gap in Russia, its evolution during the early stages of a career, gender segregation and…

Does working while studying affect education mismatch among youth? Evidence from Zambia

Chitalu Miriam Chama-Chiliba, Mwimba Chewe, Kelvin Chileshe, Hilary Chilala Hazele, Abdelkrim Araar

This paper aims to study the relationship between working while studying in college/university and education mismatch among employed youth in the Zambian labour market.

Overeducation wage penalty among Ph.D. holders: an unconditional quantile regression analysis on Italian data

Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta, Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera, Francesco Pastore

The wage effect of job–education vertical mismatch (i.e. overeducation) has only recently been investigated in the case of Ph.D. holders. The existing contributions rely on…

Active political engagement, political patronage and local labour markets – The example of Shkoder

Elvisa Drishti, Bresena Kopliku, Drini Imami

This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the effects of active political engagement in port-of-entry jobs and employment pathways for graduate students in a…

Gender pay-gap: exploring the school-to-work transition of graduates in Italy

Valentina Ferri, Thaís García-Pereiro, Roberta Pace

In this article, the authors study the gender pay-gap (GPG) among graduates in Italy (2011 cohort) who were employed four years after graduation. The authors focus on individuals…

The effect of social network sites usage on absenteeism and labor outcomes: longitudinal evidence

Jie Chen

The purpose of this paper is multifold. First, it is to investigate the relationship between social network sites (SNSs) usage and youth's school absenteeism. Second, it is to…

Informal employment and wages in Poland

Jacek Liwiński

This paper tries to identify the wage gap between informal and formal workers and tests for the two-tier structure of the informal labour market in Poland.

Exploring job preferences of business and economics students from Colombia, Ecuador and Spain: a discrete choice experiment

Gabriela Morejón Cabrera, Petr Mariel

This study analyses the future job characteristics that are preferred by economics and business administration students in three specific regions of Spain, Colombia and Ecuador…

A data set of comparable estimates of the private rate of return to schooling in the world, 1970–2014

Claudio E. Montenegro, Harry Anthony Patrinos

Young people experience lower employment, income and participation rates, as well as higher unemployment, compared to adults. Theory predicts that people respond to labor market…