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Graduates’ job satisfaction across domains of study

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the problem of job satisfaction determinants
of higher education graduates across six selected study domains.
Design/methodology/approach – Based on the theoretical considerations, derived from human
capital theory and signalling theory, the authors formulate the model explaining job satisfaction as a
broad measure of labour market success. Explanatory variables include various socio-demographic
characteristics as well as market environment and process of learning, modes of teaching and study
programme characteristics. Data used in the analysis comes from two special surveys of European
research projects REFLEX and HEGESCO. Principal component analysis method and OLS regression
were used to estimate model parameters.
Findings – The results of our research show the important role of characteristics of educational
process, as well as individual graduates’ early work-related experience in predicting job satisfaction.
Differences in job satisfaction determinants across domains may be to some extent explained by the
differences in the labour market characteristics for graduates in given discipline. Variety of educationrelated
characteristics taken into account in the empirical analysis of determinants of job satisfaction
is a key valuable contribution to the research in the field.
Originality/value – Research findings indicate the areas of potential actions aimed at improving
future job satisfaction which can be undertaken by higher education institutions’ management bodies.

Keywords Job satisfaction, Economics, Education, Graduates, Higher education, Employability,Domains of study

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Judul Seri

International Journal of Manpower

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: Emerald Group., 2014

Deskripsi Fisik

International Journal of Manpower Vol. 35 No. 4, 2014 pp. 470-499

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English

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