Transition towards Innovation-driven Economies in the Western Balkans: A Brief Survey on Graduate Employability and Job Mismatches
Transition towards Innovation-driven Economies in the Western Balkans: A Brief Survey on Graduate Employability and Job Mismatches

Summary/Abstract: This short survey reviews the link between the graduate labour markets and higher education policies by focusing on graduate employability, education-job mismatches and over-education. As the Western Balkans is expected to experience transition towards innovation-driven economies demand for graduate labour becomes too complex for the current higher education programmes to accommodate in their training. Likewise, expected labour mobility in Europe and the Western Balkans require both local and intra-European responses to the above phenomenon. Inevitably, much of the discussions presented in this study is rather obvious and familiar to anyone who is involved in the graduate labour market. Yet restating the obvious is sometimes necessary in dealing with complex reforms in higher education to accommodate rapid economic growth in the region.

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