The expansion of higher education and overeducation in Portugal: insights from the last two decades

Fátima Suleman, Pedro Videira and Pedro N. Teixeira

Chapter 4 in Mass Higher Education and the Changing Labour Market for Graduates, 2024, pp 80-101 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: While the Spanish higher education system has experienced a period of profound change affecting its socioeconomic system, high unemployment rates among the youth, females and university graduates remain a critical challenge. Despite this challenge, structural political reforms on the issue to assist the affected groups to enhance their employability remain scarce. This chapter employs an exploratory and descriptive approach to analyse Spanish university graduates’ employability. As a whole, the data indicates that two of the most outstanding changes in recent decades have been educational growth and the improvement of the occupational structure. Nevertheless, this improvement has not been able to absorb the growth in higher education. This means that many Spanish university graduates are heading for unemployment and are in jobs that do not require a university degree. In this context, public policies should take into consideration structural issues that affect the labour market and the management of curricula.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Education; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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