Schooling inequality, higher education and the labour market: evidence from a graduate tracer study in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Rogan, Michael; Reynolds, John

Title: Schooling inequality, higher education and the labour market: evidence from a graduate tracer study in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Title: ISER Working Paper, no. 2015/3
Creator: Rogan, Michael
Creator: Reynolds, John
Subject: Educational equalization -- South Africa Education, Higher -- South Africa College graduates -- Employment -- South Africa College majors -- South Africa
Date Issued: 2015
Date: 2015
Type: Book
Type: Text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/3104
Identifier: vital:20369
Identifier: ISBN 9780868106045
Description: This study attempts to link schooling, demographic, socio-economic and academic factors to firstchoice degree completion and labour market outcomes. More specifically, this study investigates those factors that are most directly associated with whether the degrees that university graduates obtain reflect their first qualification choices, and also examines the effects of those factors and degree types on labour market outcomes. The remainder of the paper is structured as follows. The next section reviews the literature on the transition from schooling to higher education in South Africa with a particular focus on programme choice, followed by the recent literature on graduate employment and unemployment, and the broad findings of the graduate tracer studies which have been conducted in South Africa to date. Section three describes the graduate tracer study design and the analysis upon which the empirical section of the paper is based. In section four, the results of the descriptive statistics and a multivariate analysis are presented in two parts. Finally, section five discusses the results and reflects on the implications for higher education in South Africa.
Format: 22 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research
Language: English
Relation: ISER Working Paper, no. 2015/3
Relation: Working Paper Series: Social Policy and Labour
Rights: Rogan, Michael and Reynolds, John
Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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