ABSTRACT The main purpose of this article is to analyse to what degree master’s degree education in Norway enhances employability through enhancing or signalling generic competence, or through enhancing specialised competence. Using multiple correspondence analysison the links between educational group, economic activity and sector, educational groups with strong links to certain economic activities were categorised as specialised education, otherwise generic. In the next step, we analyse how the distinction between specialised and generic education affects the transfer to employment. The main data source for the analysis is the NIFU Graduate Survey for the period 1995–2015, where data on graduate numbers as well as detailed information about graduate employment are collected. According to a narrow definition, business administration, information and computer technology, electronic, mechanical and machine subjects and teacher training and pedagogy were specialized education. Using a broad definition, this also includied languages, humanities and arts other, psychology, health, welfare and sport, law and political science. The analysis found that generic education graduates had a more difficult transfer to the labour market than specialised education graduates and that this cannot be explained by generic education being less selective than specialised education.

中文翻译：

---

挪威的硕士学位毕业生：研究领域和劳动力市场成果

摘要本文的主要目的是分析挪威的硕士学位教育通过提高或发出通用能力或通过增强专业能力来提高就业能力。通过对教育群体，经济活动和部门之间联系的多重对应分析，将与某些经济活动有密切联系的教育群体归为特殊教育，否则为普通教育。在下一步中，我们分析专业教育与普通教育之间的区别如何影响向就业的转移。分析的主要数据来源是1995–2015年的NIFU毕业生调查，其中收集了有关毕业生人数的数据以及有关毕业生就业的详细信息。根据狭义的定义，企业管理 信息和计算机技术，电子，机械和机械学科以及师资培训和教学法是专门教育。使用广泛的定义，这还包括语言，人文和其他艺术，心理学，健康，福利和体育，法律和政治学。分析发现，与专业教育毕业生相比，普通教育毕业生向劳动力市场的转移更加困难，这不能由普通教育比特殊教育的选择性低来解释。