caa a22 4500 397524749 CHVBK 20180308164642.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199505 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036349 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036349 Returns to Education: Taking Account of Employers' Perceptions and Use of Educational Credentials [Elektronische Daten] [RICHARD BREEN, DAMIAN F. HANNAN, RICHARD O'LEARY] In examining labour-market returns to educational performance it is necessary to understand the way in which those actors who govern access to such returns—namely employers—perceive and utilize measures of performance. We argue that this will be responsive to institutional features of the educational system and the labour market and the relationship between them. We illustrate our case through an examination of the way in which Irish employers make use of educational credentials in deciding which school leavers to employ and how much to pay them. We suggest that failure to take account of employers' perceptions and interpretations of educational qualifications is likely to distort our understanding of the way in which educational attainment is rewarded in the labour market and how this can vary between sectors within a country and between countries whose institutional arrangements are different. © Oxford University Press Articles nationallicence BREEN RICHARD Centre for Social Research, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland. Tel: + +44 232-245133; fax: + +44 232-239842; e-mail:RBREEN@UK.AC.QUB.V2. aut HANNAN DAMIAN F. Economic and Social Research Institute 4, Burlington Road, Dublin 4, Republic of Ireland. Tel: + +353-6760115; fax: + +353-6686231; e-mail:DHAMSC@ESRIIE. aut O'LEARY RICHARD Economic and Social Research Institute 4, Burlington Road, Dublin 4, Republic of Ireland. aut European Sociological Review Oxford University Press 11/1(1995-05), 59-73 0266-7215 11:1<59 1995 11 eursoj https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036349 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036349 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- BREEN RICHARD Centre for Social Research, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland. Tel: + +44 232-245133; fax: + +44 232-239842; e-mail:RBREEN@UK.AC.QUB.V2 aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- HANNAN DAMIAN F. Economic and Social Research Institute 4, Burlington Road, Dublin 4, Republic of Ireland. Tel: + +353-6760115; fax: + +353-6686231; e-mail:DHAMSC@ESRIIE aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- O'LEARY RICHARD Economic and Social Research Institute 4, Burlington Road, Dublin 4, Republic of Ireland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- European Sociological Review Oxford University Press 11/1(1995-05), 59-73 0266-7215 11:1<59 1995 11 eursoj Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford