The transition to work for Canadian university graduates: Time to
first job, 1982-1990
by Julian Betts, Christopher Ferrall
and Ross Finnie
Business and Labour Market Analysis Division
Analytical
Studies Branch research paper series, No. 141
This paper focuses on the
time it takes graduates of Canadian universities to start a full-time job that
lasts six months or more. Using three waves (1982, 1986, 1990) of the National
Graduate Survey (NGS), we analyse duration to first job using the Cox proportional
hazards model. Results suggest large differences in the speed of the transition
to work both within and between cohorts.
They also suggest that the differences
in duration to first job across NGS cohorts are not just driven by differences
in business cycle conditions at the time of graduation. Over certain segments
of duration the patterns of job-starting are similar across cohorts. Within cohorts
the differences in the school-to-work transition across certain demographic groups
are small, and for some the differences remain stable across cohorts.
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