Career path of graduates at The School of Economic Sciences of The National University of Cordoba: an approach through the quality of job. The case of graduates in 2016

DE SANTIS, MARIANA; GÁNAME, MARÍA CECILIA; MONCARZ, PEDRO ESTEBAN

Bariloche

Congreso; LII Reunión Anual de la AAEP; 2017

Asociación Argentina de Economía Política

This paper  aims to  analyze  the  job  satisfaction of recent  graduates  that  have finished their studies at the School of Economic Sciences of the National University of Córdoba (SES-NUC). Firstly, we study the relationship between graduates? overall job satisfaction and  different values of  jobs. Secondly  they  analyze  the  relationship  between  each subdomain of job satisfaction and explanatory variables, which are related with individual characteristics,  relationship  statuses,  personality  traits,  household  context, human capital  background,  occupational  context,  institutional  background,  job  status  and  job adequacy. Preliminary outcomes show that fives subdomains are positively associated with the probability of overall job satisfaction; their estimated coefficients are statistically significant. Subdomains are   satisfaction   with   pay,   fringe   benefits,   general   work environment,  intellectual  challenge  and  the  possibility  of  professional  development.
Besides, the econometric analysis shows that each subdomains is affected differently by individual  characteristics,  social  and  economic  context,  personality  traits,  occupational context,  job  status,  among  others. This  result  gives  some  support  in  applying  the appropriate methodology of splitting overall job satisfaction into different dimensions in order to identify the sources of the values of job satisfaction differences.