Prelazak diplomanata poslovnih škola u Sloveniji iz obrazovanja u zaposlenost

Abstract

In this paper, we study the characteristics of young graduates’ employability while controlling for different individual abilities and a school’s value added in the context of the human capital theory. The study uses a unique matched employer-employee micro dataset for the complete cohort of the Slovenian graduates of 2007. The aim of this paper is to research the quality of education services by using a proxy not often used in the literature: the employability of graduates. In order to avoid school-to-work transitions in different fields of study, we focus solely on graduates in the field of business and administration. The results show that, on average, the probability of becoming employed after graduation differs significantly among schools that provide business and administration education. Some institutions exhibit a higher probability of employment, thereby revealing considerable differences in quality. These institutions provide their education services at a lower price per “employable” graduate in comparison to other higher education institutions. Newer private schools exhibited a significantly lower level of employability of their full- and part-time graduates, possibly indicating the lower innate ability of the students who enrol in these schools and/or the lower quality of the academic programmes involved.U ovom radu proučavaju se obilježja zapošljivosti mladih diplomanata uzimajući u obzir njihove različite individualne sposobnosti i dodanu vrijednost obrazovnih institucija u kontekstu teorije ljudskog kapitala. Studija koristi jedinstvene mikro podatke o poslodavcima i zaposlenicima za cjelovitu kohortu slovenskih diplomanata u 2007. godini. Cilj ovog rada je istražiti kvalitetu obrazovnih usluga koristeći latentnu varijablu koja se ne koristi često u literaturi: zapošljivost diplomiranih studenata. Kako bi se izbjegao problem različite dinamike zapošljavanja u pojedinim područjima studiranja, rad je usmjeren isključivo na diplomante iz područja poslovanja i administracije. Rezultati pokazuju da se, u prosjeku, vjerojatnost zapošljavanja nakon stjecanja diplome znatno razlikuje među fakultetima poslovnog smjera. Uz neke institucije veže se veća vjerojatnost zapošljavanja, čime se otkrivaju znatne razlike u kvaliteti. Ove institucije pružaju usluge obrazovanja po nižoj cijeni po zaposlenom diplomantu u odnosu na druge visokoškolske ustanove. Novi privatni fakulteti imaju znatno nižu razinu zapošljivosti svojih redovitih i izvanrednih diplomanata, što vjerojatno ukazuje na niže sposobnosti studenata koji ih upisuju i/ili nižu kvalitetu studijskih programa u koje su uključeni