Education or Employment? The Challenging Choice of Today's Youth

Abstract

The Labor market transformations that occurred during the last century have led to a more highly qualified workforce which ha s produced, as an effect, the phenomenon called “overeducation” (Freeman, 1976). While the investment in education was traditionally considered the best way to ensure a good job, today it seems that being qualified does not always guarantee a secure and decent occupation. The present work is an explorative study about university students’ occupational expectancies and ai ms to investigate their employability.