Career path of graduates at the School of Economic Sciences of the National University of Cordoba: an approach throughthe quality of job

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Congreso; XV Arnoldshain Seminar; 2017

Wirtshaftsuniversitaet

This paper aims to analyze the job satisfaction of recent graduates that have finishedtheir studies at the School of Economic Sciences of the National University of Córdoba(SES-NUC). Firstly, we study the relationship between graduates? overall job satisfactionand different values of jobs. Secondly they analyze the relationship between eachsubdomain of job satisfaction and explanatory variables, which are related with individualcharacteristics, relationship statuses, personality traits, household context, humancapital background, occupational context, institutional background, job status and jobadequacy. Preliminary outcomes show that fives subdomains are positively associatedwith the probability of overall job satisfaction; their estimated coefficients are statisticallysignificant. Subdomains are satisfaction with pay, fringe benefits, general workenvironment, intellectual challenge and the possibility of professional development.Besides, the econometric analysis shows that each subdomains is affected differently byindividual characteristics, social and economic context, personality traits, occupationalcontext, job status, among others. This result gives some support in applying theappropriate methodology of splitting overall job satisfaction into different dimensions inorder to identify the sources of the values of job satisfaction differences.