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The Labor Market for Young Spanish University Graduates

The Labor Market for Young Spanish University Graduates

Manuel Salas-Velasco
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 29
ISBN13: 9781799827795|ISBN10: 1799827798|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799827801|EISBN13: 9781799827818
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2779-5.ch004
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Salas-Velasco, Manuel. "The Labor Market for Young Spanish University Graduates." International Perspectives on the Youth Labor Market: Emerging Research and Opportunities, edited by Samir Amine, IGI Global, 2020, pp. 74-102. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2779-5.ch004

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Salas-Velasco, M. (2020). The Labor Market for Young Spanish University Graduates. In S. Amine (Ed.), International Perspectives on the Youth Labor Market: Emerging Research and Opportunities (pp. 74-102). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2779-5.ch004

Chicago

Salas-Velasco, Manuel. "The Labor Market for Young Spanish University Graduates." In International Perspectives on the Youth Labor Market: Emerging Research and Opportunities, edited by Samir Amine, 74-102. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2779-5.ch004

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Abstract

A sample of 30,379 Spanish university graduates from the class of 2010, surveyed four years after graduation, informed, on the one hand, if their positions needed a university degree and, on the other hand, what was the most appropriate study area for these positions. This chapter identified four situations of educational mismatch: appropriate match, horizontal mismatch, vertical mismatch, and vertical and horizontal mismatch. By estimating a multinomial logistic regression, this chapter categorized university degrees in each of those four categories. A significant percentage of them ended up in jobs that didn't require a university degree. Only graduates in Medicine increased the probability of being well-matched in their first and current jobs. The results also indicated that a considerable percentage of graduates (30%) who were mismatched in their first job became well-matched in their current employment after moving to a different firm.

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