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A Research On The Influence Of Human Capital On Employment Of Graduate Students

Posted on:2011-09-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H ZhengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360305963655Subject:Sociology
Abstract/Summary:
Nowadays in China, the problem of graduate's employment already become a social problem. Along with increased enrollment in university, the scale of postgraduate education is expansive. And the problem of graduate student's employment appear. The employment is the foundation of people's livelihood, the expansion of employment scale and the promotion of employment quality is very important to the safeguard and the improvement of people's livelihood. Therefore, research on the employment of graduate students have certain theory and practical significance.This research draws on the occupational status attainment theory and the human capital theory, and the paper mainly use quantitative and qualitative methods in order to discuss the concrete influence of the graduate student'ascriptive human capital (including gender, height, appearance) and achievemental human capital(including professional knowledge, ability, quality, political status, school type, major, working expierence) on employment of the graduate students. Basic assumption is that human capital have a significant effect on the employment of graduate students. And the basic assumptions lead to two specific assumptions. Assumption 1:human capital (including gender, height, appearance, professional knowledge, ability, quality, school type, major, political status, working experience) have significant influence on the availability of employment opportunities for graduate students. Assumption 2:human capital (including gender, height, appearance, professional knowledge, ability, quality, school type, major, political status, working experience) have a significant influence on the employment quality of graduate students. The more human capital stock, the higher post-graduates' job satisfaction (including satisfaction with employment income, career prospects, properties of unit and region).This research draws two conclusions finally:Through the logic regression analysis, the first conclusion is height, ability and school type have remarkable influence on the employment opportunity;Through the multiple regression analysis, the second conclusion is ability and the working expierence have remarkable influence on employment quality And the influence of ability on employment quality is positive, but the influence of working expierence on employment quality is negative.Based on the analysis of the results, this research puts forward some suggestions:Firstly, promoting graduate students' human capital unceasingly;Secondly, guiding the graduate students to set up the correct employment idea;Thirdly, making efforts to raise the comprehensive level of running university.
Keywords/Search Tags:Human Capital, Graduate Students, Employment
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