Relationship between social origin and labor insertion of university graduates

Authors

  • Sandra Fachelli University of Barcelona
  • José Navarro-Cendejas Centre for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/relieve.21.2.7812

Keywords:

University graduates, social origin, labour insertion, field of study, training-employment relationship

Abstract

This article has two primary objectives. Firstly, we aim to examine whether the weight of social origin of university graduates influences the labour market entry, using the wages as an indicator of graduates’ job quality, once controlled the degree obtained. Secondly, we want to observe whether graduates from disadvantaged social backgrounds are more unemployed and inactive than those from households with more resources. In order to achieve these purposes, we analyzed a sample of graduates from Catalan public universities in 2006-2007 interviewed by the Catalan Agency for the Quality of University System (AQU) in the first trimester of 2011. The methodology is based on bivariate statistical techniques (contingency tables) and multivariate analysis (binomial logistic regression). The results obtained in the present article leads us to reformulate our original hypothesis, as the findings show that even taking into account the specific degree obtained by graduates, we do not observed a significant influence of social background on the employment of university graduates in this cohort

Author Biographies

Sandra Fachelli, University of Barcelona

PhD in Sociology awarded by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). She is currently associate lecturer in sociology at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Barcelona (UB), and postdoctoral researcher in the Work and Education Research Group (GRET) at the UAB. She teaches on the interuniversity master’s degree in Applied Social Research Techniques (TISA), which is jointly organized by the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Barcelona, in collaboration with the Association of Political Scientists and Sociologists of Catalonia (COLPIS). Main research areas: social inequality; social mobility; education and work; impact of the political sciences. Postal address: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Facultat de Ciències Polítiques i Sociologia. Despatx B3/ -107. 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona.

José Navarro-Cendejas, Centre for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE)

PhD in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, master’s degree in Social Sciences from the University of Guadalajara (Mexico).  CONACYT Research Fellow, attached to the Interdisciplinary Programme on Educational Policy and Practice (PIPE) at the Centre for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE, Mexico). Main areas of research: relationship between education and work; entry of graduates into the labour market; young people, education pathways and careers; competences and employability.

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Published

2015-12-29

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Vol. 21 No. 2 (2015)

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Research Articles

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