Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/144149 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Documento de Trabalho No. 2009/06
Publisher: 
Universidade de Évora, Departamento de Economia, Évora
Abstract: 
A traditional way of looking at the importance of universities assumes that these are sources of many positive effects from the point of view of the inputs, i.e. from a demand side perspective. In accordance to this perspective, the importance of a university can be measured by its multiplier effects, at a regional or national level. This perspective can be complemented with the analysis of the issues associated with the transition to work by their graduates. The paper thus analyses the factors that reveal to be explanatory of the time spent by first degree students of a small university in Portugal, the University of Évora, in order to enter the labour market. In doing so, we employ a sample of 767 students and estimate several specifications of discrete-time duration models. The results show that there are significant differences among the students from the several courses and highlight the importance of the final mark in the course. On the other hand, we did find any significant differences between male and female students.
Subjects: 
Duration Models
Graduates
Labour Market
Universities
JEL: 
C41
I23
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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