Author name: The Lab's Quarterly

The introduction of cognitive capitalism in the academic environment implemented a market-driven logic which transformed the processes behind knowledge production and mobility of scholars. Today, knowledge workers are forced to acquire many skills and experiences as a mandatory requisite to begin and build their careers. At the beginning of his or her path as researcher, […]

The eligibility of a worker for a specific job post is often based on skills defined only according to a neutral standard. In a different perspective, we can also consider skills as a symbolic interplay between the social actors involved in securing the match between labour supply and labour demand. Based on a qualitative research

Literature on the profitability of tertiary education indicates that university graduates enjoy better occupational outcomes than secondary school graduates. Yet, these claims are often based on simple mean comparisons of wages and employment opportunities, disregarding dropout risks, opportunity costs and field-of-study heterogeneity. This study tackles these issues by estimating short and long-term returns of the