ABSTRACT The article’s aim is twofold: to outline the specificity of the embeddedness approach and to explore the embeddedness of graduates’ education-job mismatch and the formation of lifelong learning policies. The study is based on both quantitative and qualitative data, obtained from the Bulgarian Universities Ranking System, and from interviews with experts and young adults engaged in a lifelong learning programme. The analysis uses multilevel modelling. It also relies on mapping lifelong learning policies in Bulgaria through a thematic content analysis. The article argues that the misbalances for highly educated people on the labour market mirror structural problems in the economy and the educational system. The argument is reflected in the historical and structural embeddedness of graduates’ education-job mismatches and the lifelong learning policies applied to overcome this. The results show that the extent of vertical education-job mismatch depends on the different profiles of higher education institutions and professional fields; they also demonstrate different ways in which the embeddedness approach could help shed new light on, and critically assess, lifelong learning policies. The findings reveal a differentiation between national and local levels of lifelong learning policy towards graduates and that regional policies are actively embedded in local contexts.

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毕业生学业错配的地方嵌入性和终身学习政策的克服

摘要 本文的目的有两个：概述嵌入方法的特殊性，探讨毕业生教育与工作不匹配的嵌入和终身学习政策的形成。该研究基于从保加利亚大学排名系统获得的定量和定性数据，以及对从事终身学习计划的专家和年轻人的采访。该分析使用多级建模。它还依赖于通过主题内容分析绘制保加利亚的终身学习政策。文章认为，劳动力市场上受过高等教育的人的失衡反映了经济和教育体系中的结构性问题。这一论点反映在毕业生教育与工作不匹配的历史和结构嵌入以及为克服这一问题而应用的终身学习政策上。结果表明，教育与工作垂直错配的程度取决于高等教育机构和专业领域的不同特征；他们还展示了嵌入方法可以帮助阐明和批判性评估终身学习政策的不同方式。调查结果揭示了国家和地方层面针对毕业生的终身学习政策之间的差异，并且区域政策积极融入当地环境。结果表明，教育与工作垂直错配的程度取决于高等教育机构和专业领域的不同特征；他们还展示了嵌入方法可以帮助阐明和批判性评估终身学习政策的不同方式。调查结果揭示了国家和地方层面针对毕业生的终身学习政策之间的差异，并且区域政策积极融入当地环境。结果表明，教育与工作垂直错配的程度取决于高等教育机构和专业领域的不同特征；他们还展示了嵌入方法可以帮助阐明和批判性评估终身学习政策的不同方式。调查结果揭示了国家和地方层面针对毕业生的终身学习政策之间的差异，并且区域政策积极融入当地环境。