Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Estructura e Historia, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain.
PLoS One. 2022 Jul 6;17(7):e0270643. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0270643. eCollection 2022.
The objective of this paper is to analyze the association between the job placement results of graduates and the satisfaction that, retrospectively, they express about their university education. Despite the fact that, in Spain, 47.0% of the population aged 25 to 34 has a higher education degree, we have little knowledge of the determinants of university student satisfaction. In addition, most studies have focused on evaluating the university experience (teaching activity, study plans, counselling for students, or facilities) and very few of them have taken into account the influence of graduates' labour market outcomes on their satisfaction. This issue is of particular interest in the Spanish case, considering the dysfunctional nature of the youth labor market, which has high rates of overqualification, excessive job turnover and high unemployment. The sources of statistical information used in this work include the first two editions of the "University Graduate Job Placement Survey", carried out by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics (INE) in 2014 and 2019. The methodology used in the empirical work is the propensity score matching estimator. The results of empirical analysis indicate that graduates' job placement difficulties have a significant association with their dissatisfaction with their university experience. In particular, educational mismatch (horizontal and vertical) and, to a lesser extent, unemployment and low wages significantly increase the probability of graduates stating that, if they had to start over, they would not return to university or they would not study the same degree.
本文旨在分析毕业生的就业安置结果与他们对大学教育的满意度之间的关系。尽管在西班牙，25 至 34 岁的人口中有 47.0%拥有高等教育学历，但我们对大学生满意度的决定因素知之甚少。此外，大多数研究都集中在评估大学的体验（教学活动、学习计划、学生咨询或设施），很少有研究考虑毕业生的劳动力市场结果对他们的满意度的影响。考虑到青年劳动力市场的功能失调性质，这一问题在西班牙案例中尤为重要，西班牙的青年劳动力市场存在过度教育、过度跳槽和高失业率的高比率。这项工作中使用的统计信息来源包括西班牙国家统计局（INE）在 2014 年和 2019 年进行的前两次“大学毕业生就业安置调查”。实证工作中使用的方法是倾向得分匹配估计量。实证分析的结果表明，毕业生就业安置困难与他们对大学经历的不满有显著关系。特别是，教育不匹配（水平和垂直），以及在较小程度上的失业和低工资，显著增加了毕业生表示如果他们不得不重新开始，他们不会回到大学或不会学习相同学位的可能性。
