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The Higher Education and Employment Markets in France

In: Human Resources, Employment and Development

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  • Alain Mingat
  • J. C. Eicher

Abstract

The relationships between the educational system and the system of production are neither simple nor linear as might have been presumed in a quite recent period. The term adequacy which is often crucial in education-employment analysis has lost its magical power and the intended goal of establishing a one-to-one correlation between training and jobs, by placing the population on the diagonal of the training-employment matrix, has lost current relevance. At the same time, the more flexible idea that minimal qualifications should exist for holding jobs seems only to apply in a limited way to a relatively small portion of the jobs offered by the system of production. The notion of qualification with its corollary disqualification is, in turn, a vague and non-normative concept, as it is both dated and specified in space as well as time.

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  • Alain Mingat & J. C. Eicher, 1983. "The Higher Education and Employment Markets in France," International Economic Association Series, in: Burton Weisbrod & Helen Hughes (ed.), Human Resources, Employment and Development, chapter 10, pages 133-146, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-22741-9_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22741-9_10
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