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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