The Determinants of Education-Job Matching for Portuguese Graduates

Daniela Olo (), Leonida Correia (), Conceição Rego () and João Rebelo ()

Revista Galega de Economía, 2024, vol. 33, issue 3, 1-21

Abstract: This paper deals with the determinants of education-job match for higher-education graduates, using a logistic regression model to identify explanatory variables related to sociodemographic, academic trajectory and institutional characteristics. The empirical analysis is based on an anonymous online questionnaire administered to a sample of graduates, from 2014 to 2019, in Portuguese institutions, of which about five hundred observations were made. Although the boundaries between universities and polytechnics are less obvious today, there are still some differences between the two higher-education subsystems regarding education-job match. The main ones are related to the field of study, gender, and the need to move away from home to study and work. Factors that improve the probability of education-job matching, common to both subsystems, were also found, such as having i) studied ‘social sciences, commerce, and law’ and ‘engineering, manufacturing and construction’, ii) attained good final grades, and iii) participated in extracurricular activities involving complementary training.

Keywords: Employability; Graduates; Higher Education; Education-Job Matching Determinants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 J21 J23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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