Vocational Integration of University Graduates: Typology and multivariate analysis

This paper deals with the professional integration of university graduates (Bachelor's degree level). The objectives are (a) to delimit the notion of vocational integration; (b) to build a typology of the vocational integration focusing on the process of stabilization in the job market rather than on the correspondence between education and employment; and (c) to measure the influence of the field of studies and of two sociodemographic characteristics (gender and social origin) on the level of vocational integration of graduates, using a logistic-regression analysis. The analysis is based on a data bank on the educational paths and the entry in the labour market of graduates 3 years after graduation in 1986. It was found that the gender, social origin and field of studies at the Bachelor's degree level are all factors that have a direct impact on the level of vocational integration.