Keynote: Student mobility and labour market outcomes

1. Student mobility and labour market outcomes Jannecke Wiers-Jenssen, NIFU STEP (Norwegian institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education)

3. There appears to be little systematic or detailed enquiry/evidence about how mobility enhances the employability of the individual - what employment might they otherwise not have obtained The added value of mobility – A review of the literature (Technopolis group 2009)

10. Mobility capital - aspects

13. Unemployment in different phases

14. Main activity 3 years after graduation Degree students Exchange students Non-mobile Employed 90.7 93.6 92.4 Student 4.4 3.9 3.0 Unpaid domestic work 0.8 0.2 0.2 Unemployed 2 0.4 2 Other 2.1 1.9 2.5 Sum 100 100 100

15. Average monthly wages November 2007. NOK. Full time employment, working in Norway

16. Now we will look at another classic indicatior of labour market succes of failure: Skills-mismatch Definition of over education: to have a job that requires education at a lower level than the degree the graduate holds. Over-Education is more prevalent among degree students Increased probability of over-education persist when we control for a lot of variables in multivariate analyses. We saw that unemployment did not have a lasting effect But over-education is a phenomenon that seem to be more persistent Skills-mismatch: Over-education

17. International firm and business travel

18. Use of foreign language for professional purposes on a weekly basis

19. International job - index

20. Outcome, compared to expectations 1

21. Outcome, compared to expectations 2

22. Outcomes of study abroad – enhanced opportunites? Degree students Exchange students HE-to-work transition - (+) Wages + (+) Over-education - + International job + + Outcome compared to expectations + +