3.2.2 Graduates’ Labour Market: School-to-work Transition

Research Area 3. Employment and Development of Skills and Competencies  → Research Program 3.2 Labor Market: Changes in Demand in Professional Structure and System of Skills and Wages

Project period

2020-2025

Context of Research Project within a Subject of Human Capital

The human potential of the workforce is realized on the certain condition. After receiving education, people enter the labor market and apply the acquired knowledge and skills in practice. Therefore, a successful transition from study to work among recent graduates is of particular importance for the effective use of accumulated human capital in the conditions of demographic changes and population aging.

The research project Graduates’ Labour Market: School-to-work Transition is aimed at analyzing the existing differentiated impact of education, which is important for the development of educational policy and labor market policy. Within the framework of the project, it is planned to implement a single block of studies on the returns to human capital in Russia, conducted on the basis of unique All-Russian data

Project Aim

Creating a complete picture of graduates of secondary vocational and higher education in the labor market on the basis of unique All-Russian data; assessing key factors influencing the results of graduates' employment, as well as providing analytical support for the youth labor market and areas of increased attention of state policy

Project Objectives:

1. Assessing the impact of the Master's degree among graduates of Russian universities in terms of wages and the likelihood of their employment
2. Assessing the quality of the university, academic achievements and specialization of graduates of different levels of education
3. Assessing the scale and impact of combining study and work among graduates of different levels of education and interregional differences in the impact of higher and secondary vocational education on the labor market outcomes

Key Findings

2020

The research project has been implemented since 2021

2021

Empirical results of the impact of a master's degree on the salary and employment of different categories of graduates in Russia have been carried out

2022

A theoretical model of economic behavior, explaining the choice of combining study and work. Has been developed. An empirical assessment of the contribution of combining study and work to the probability of employment and the level of salaries of graduates, taking into account the levels of education and training areas, has been carried out

Publications

1. Report Labor Productivity and Russian Human Capital: Paradoxes of Interrelation?. (RU) Authors: Daria Avdeeva, Natalia Akindinova, Ilya Voskoboynikov, Vladimir Gimpelson, Mikhail Denisenko, Yuri Simachev, Pavel Travkin and Anna Fedyunina
2. Rozhkova K., Solntsev S., Travkin P., Roshchin S. The Impact of a Master's Degree in the Russian Labor Market (RU) // Economic issues. 2021;(8):69-92
3. Report «Higher Education Graduates in the Russian Labor Market: Trends and Challenges. (RU) Authors: Natalia Emelina, Ksenia Rozhkova, Sergey Roshchin, Sergey Solntsev, Pavel Travkin. Scientific editor is Sergey Roshchin

4. Rozhkova K. V. et al. Differentiation of the quality of higher education and salaries of graduates in Russia//Education issues. – 2023. – No. 1. – pp. 161-190. doi

Conferences

International Research Seminar (workshop) 1^st Moscow International Workshop Applied Research in Labor Economics and Human Capital (Moscow, Russia, November 12-13, 2021):
Travkin P. Report The Gender Wage Gap among University Graduates in Russia: Horizontal Segregation in Education and Jobs

XXIII Yasin (April) International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development (Moscow, Russia, April 5-22, 2022):
- special round table Graduates of Higher Education in the Russian Labor Market: Trends and Challenges (RU) (07/04/2022)

- Special session "Human potential in the Russian labor market: returns and demand" within the framework of Section V "Economics and Sociology of Education" (April 8, 2022)

Scientific seminar "The system of vocational education and the labor market in Russia: Structural imbalances as a challenge to sustainable development" (Moscow, Russia, October 26, 2023)