When Education Does Not Become Employment: Gendered Credential Conversion in the Transition to Work among Pakistani Youth

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  • Imran Sabir , Abida Sharif , Aneeqa Ansari , Maheen Khattak

Keywords:

Credential conversion; higher education; youth unemployment; NEET; gender; labour market; Pakistan; secondary data

Abstract

Education is commonly treated as a route from socialdisadvantage to productive employment, yet the conversionof credentials into work depends on the structure of labourdemand and on the social conditions under which people can enter, search, and remain in labour markets. This articledevelops the concept of the credential conversion gap and applies it to Pakistan using a secondary quantitative analysisof the Pakistan Labour Force Survey

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References

Ahsan, H., & Khan, M. J. (2023). Disaggregating the graduate unemployment in Pakistan (Knowledge Brief No. 100).

Pakistan Institute of Development Economics.

Becker, G. S. (1964). Human capital: A theoretical and empirical analysis, with special reference to education. University of Chicago Press.

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Published

2023-03-15

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Imran Sabir , Abida Sharif , Aneeqa Ansari , Maheen Khattak. (2023). When Education Does Not Become Employment: Gendered Credential Conversion in the Transition to Work among Pakistani Youth . Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 13(3), 603–610. Retrieved from https://www.pegegog.net/index.php/pegegog/article/view/5308

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Vol. 13 No. 3 (2023): PEGEGOG

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