The Employability Of Mexican University StudentsAn Analysis By Gender And Training Areas

  1. Angélica Beatriz CONTRERAS CUEVA
  2. Sergio DÁVALOS GARCÍA
  3. Olga GONZÁLEZ-MORALES
  4. José Antonio ÁLVAREZ-GONZÁLEZ
Revista:
Estudios Economicos Regionales y Sectoriales : EERS: Regional and sectoral economic studies : RSES

ISSN: 1578-4460

Año de publicación: 2014

Título del ejemplar: Special Issue on Economics of Education in collaboration with AEDE

Volumen: 14

Número: 3

Páginas: 155-168

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

This article describes the human capital determinant of the employability of Mexican university graduates, in order to identify the differences in employment by gender and training area. Data from the National Survey of Occupation and Employment in 2010 and from 12 groups ranked in the careers coding catalogue of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography are used. Logit model is applied to show the probability of being occupied based on certain characteristics of the individuals being studied. The distribution of employment by gender in each professional area is determined by the Dissimilarity Index Duncan.

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