Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in March 2022 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that...

Introduction : graduate careers in context : setting the scene / Fiona Christie and Ciaran Burke -- "Investing your future" : the role of capitals in graduate employment pathways / Ciaran Burke and Sarah Hannaford-Simpson -- Whose employability? : fees, labour markets and the unequal rewards of...

The wave of upbeat stories on the developing world's emerging middle class has reinvigorated a debate on how social class in general and the middle class in particular ought to be defined and empirically measured. With the aim of adding clarity to this debate, this dissertation provides a...