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Altrichter, Herbert – Higher Education, 1982
Austrian Ph.D.s in education were surveyed about their employment patterns. Half were in universities and teacher training; relatively new occupational fields (social work, special education, vocational training) employed few. Little unemployment was found, but about 20 percent were overqualified for their jobs. Suggestions for graduate curriculum…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Curriculum Development, Doctoral Degrees, Education Majors

Palmier, Leslie – Higher Education, 1982
Analysis of 1978 occupational patterns of college graduates in Indonesia considers occupation type, government employment, pay level, degree, discipline, relevance of education to employment, and concentration of academic majors in certain occupations. No occupation was the preserve of any one subject. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Graduates, Degrees (Academic), Education Work Relationship, Employment Level

Kerr, Ian H. F. – Higher Education, 1986
A study of the patterns of employment and graduate study of recent graduates of five northeastern Japanese universities found differences in the patterns of the three groups (engineers and scientists, teachers, and arts and sciences majors), between men and women, and between the oldest university and the others. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Graduates, Employment Patterns, Engineers, Entry Workers

Zweigenhaft, Richard L. – Higher Education, 1992
A study of the postcollege experiences of 149 Yale College (Connecticut) graduates from elite prep schools, nonelite prep schools, and public high schools in 1963 supported the expectation that prep school graduates would have accumulated "social capital" according to one theory, and public school graduates would accumulate more…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Bound Students, College Graduates, Comparative Analysis