ibw-research brief Nr. 57

Arthur Schneeberger, Alexander Petanovitsch

Between a Shortage of Tertiary Graduates and Precarious Employment

Proof of Value of Higher Education Expansion on the Labour Market

This report first and foremost aims to document institutional changes in the Austrian higher education (HE) landscape and, on this basis, prove the trend and current new HE qualification offers on the labour market. This comprises in particular the role of the relatively new Fachhochschule sector and scientific universities by specialisations. In another chapter, the “qualification requirements of the economy” (which is an often used, but by no means easily definable category) are specified by applying various empirical indicators. This is done by analysing job vacancies, recent data provided by Public Employment Service Austria (AMS) and by Statistics Austria (microcensus, censuses), a company survey, as well as the analysis of published national and European employment projections, which reveal changes regarding academic professions.

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