Relación entre origen social e inserción laboral de los graduados universitarios

This article has two primary objectives. Firstly, we aim to examine whether the weight of social origin of university graduates influences the labour market entry, using the wages as an indicator of graduates' job quality, once controlled the degree obtained. Secondly, we want to observe whether graduates from disadvantaged social backgrounds are more unemployed and inactive than those from households with more resources. In order to achieve these purposes, we analyzed a sample of graduates from Catalan public universities in 2006-2007 interviewed by the Catalan Agency for the Quality of University System (AQU) in the first trimester of 2011. The methodology is based on bivariate statistical techniques (contingency tables) and multivariate analysis (binomial logistic regression). The results obtained in the present article leads us to reformulate our original hypothesis, as the findings show that even taking into account the specific degree obtained by graduates, we do not observed a significant influence of social background on the employment of university graduates in this cohort.