Handbook of Education and Work

Edited by Maarten H.J.Wolbers, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Radboud University, the Netherlands and Dieter Verhaest, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, KU Leuven, Belgium

Contents
1 Research on the education-work nexus: where are we and where to go? 1
Dieter Verhaest and Maarten H.J. Wolbers
PART I EDUCATION AND LABOUR MARKET OUTCOMES
2 Returns to education in the context of higher education expansion 16
Tom McKenzie, Lei Xu and Yu Zhu
3 Vocational education and labor market outcomes 36
Thijs Bol and Andrea Forster
4 Field of study choice and labour market outcomes 51
Nicolai T. Borgen and David Reimer
5 The importance of socio-emotional skills for multiple life outcomes and the role of education 74
Barbara Belfi and Lex Borghans
PART II WORKING WHILE STUDYING
6 Student employment in higher education: patterns, drivers and outcomes 105
Moris Triventi, Giampiero Passaretta and Guido Salza
7 The significance of internships: a review of their impact on educational and labour market outcomes 137
Ilse Tobback and Ruxanda Berlinschi
PART III THE TRANSITION FROM EDUCATION TO WORK
8 Social, gender and ethnic inequalities in education and school-to-work transitions 167
Emer Smyth and Merike Darmody
9 A review and bibliometric analysis of NEET research with a special focus on longitudinal studies 183
Alexander Dicks
10 The role of labour market institutions in the transition from education to work 201
Luis Ortiz-Gervasi and Michael Gebel
11 Effective interventions for NEETs: a systematic review 225
Wendy I.E. Wesseling, Geerte J. Dijkstra and Sonja Bekker
12 Scarring effects of bad transitions from education to work 249
Paolo Barbieri and Filippo Gioachin
PART IV LIFELONG LEARNING
13 Firm-provided training in imperfect labour markets 274
Stijn Vanormelingen
14 Employability: the race between skills obsolescence and lifelong learning 291
Annemarie Künn-Nelen
PART V THE MISMATCH BETWEEN EDUCATION AND WORK
15 Skills mismatch: what do we already know and what do we need to know? 317
Seamus McGuinness, Paul Redmond, Elisa Staffa, Anne Devlin and Adele Whelan
16 Field-of-study mismatch: measures, drivers and consequences 339
Cecilia Albert Albert, Maria A. Davia and Nuria Legazpe
PART VI METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN RESEARCH ON EDUCATION AND WORK
17 Understanding the link between education and work: the role of natural experiments 356
Kristof De Witte, Hannelore Nelissen and Gonzalo Sanz-Magallon
18 Employers as key gatekeepers in school-to-work transitions: a review of experimental research using factorial surveys and correspondence tests 374
Valentina Di Stasio and Patrick McDonald
19 Vacancy data: opportunities and challenges associated with a novel data source 395
Marlis Buchmann and Jan Müller