Claude Trottier

Vocational Integration of University Graduates Typology and multivariate analysis

This paper deals with the professional integration of university graduates (Bachelors 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 Bachelors degree level are all factors that have a direct impact on the level of vocational integration.