Job Satisfaction of Recent University Graduates in Economics Sciences: The Role of the Match Between Formal Education and Job Requirements

MARÍA CECILIA GÁNAME

Journal of Happiness Studies

Springer Nature

Año: 2021

1389-4978

his paper aims to analyse the job satisfaction of recent graduates that finished their studies at the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Using a database specially designed for this project, we first look at the relationship between over-all job satisfaction and its subdomains. Second, we inquiry on the relationships of overall job satisfaction and some of its subdomain with the degree ofmatching between the gradu-ate?s education and skills with those required by his/her job, controlling by a set of vari-ables related with individual characteristics, relationship statuses, personality traits, house-hold context, human capital background, occupational context, institutional background, and job status. Finally, we look at the recent graduates? job satisfaction by differentiating specific subgroups: by gender and matched/mismatched job statuses. The evidence shows that eight subdomains are positively associated with overall job satisfaction; t