Employability versus overqualification Mismatch between training and employment in the laboral trajectories of young graduates in Spain

  • Damián Herrera Cuesta Depto. de Sociología III, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología, UNED,
Keywords: Employability, overqualification, active young graduates.

Abstract

At a time when the European directives on employment raise the issue of youth low employability as the product of a training mismatch and of human capital of wor-kers front the influence of technology on the economy and work processes, the number of young European graduates employed in jobs that do not require a higher educational level represented 24% in 2016. In the case of Spain, the phenomenon of overqualification reaches 40% of these young people.

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Herrera Cuesta D. (2017). Employability versus overqualification Mismatch between training and employment in the laboral trajectories of young graduates in Spain. Sociología del Trabajo, 89, 29-52. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/STRA/article/view/59635