A strong incentive for studying the dropout phenomenon in the context of Italian tertiary education, both from the positive standpoint and from the regulatory one, is because higher education institutions are evaluated and then financially supported also on the base of parameters such as the...

L’analisi prende in considerazione la coorte 2007/08 degli immatricolati ad un corso di primo livello o a ciclo unico e degli iscritti al primo anno di un corso specialistico beneficiari della borsa di studio erogata da ER.GO. A partire dall’a.a. 2007/08 in Emilia-Romagna il numero di aventi...

The 16th ALMALAUREA Report on Italian University Graduates’ Profile was presented at the Conference in Pollenzo-Bra – hosted by the University of Gastronomic Sciences. The data on which this Report is based refers to 64 universities (out of the 65 which are part of the consortium) which have...

In occasione del convegno "Laurearsi in tempi di crisi: come valorizzare gli studi universitari”, presso l’Università Federico II di Napoli è stato presentato il XIV Profilo dei Laureati italiani. L’indagine coinvolge oltre 215 mila laureati del 2011, circa l’80 per cento di tutti i...

Il XV Profilo dei Laureati italiani, presentato al convegno "Scelte, processi, esiti nell’istruzione universitaria”, presso l’Università IULM di Milano coinvolge quasi 227.000 laureati del 2012, circa l’80% di tutti i laureati usciti dall’intero sistema universitario nazionale nei 63...

Per conoscere gli esiti occupazionali oltre i cinque anni dal conseguimento del titolo, il Consorzio ALMALAUREA ha condotto, nell’autunno 2011, un’indagine via web che ha coinvolto un campione di laureati pre-riforma degli anni 2000, 2001 e 2002, intervistati a circa 10 anni dal titolo. Dato...

The technology of cognitive and non-cognitive skills formation is characterized by the cumulative nature of learning processes and by the presence of significant complementarity and irreversibility in the acquisition of such skills [Cunha and Heckman, 2007]. From this it follows that, in order...

The popularity of propensity score (PS) methods for estimating causal treatment effects from observational studies has increased during the past decades. However, the success of these methods in removing selection bias mainly rests on strong assumptions, like the strong ignorability assumption,...

As shown by the outcomes of REFLEX 2006, the behaviour of Czech graduates and the factors concerning their transition from school to work in the mid of the last decade have many similarities but also some differences when compared with graduates from other European countries. The paper describes...

This paper provides the first available evidence on overeducation/overskilling based on AlmaLaurea data. We focus on jobs held 5 years after graduation by pre-reform graduates in 2005. Overeducation/overskilling are relatively high – at 11.4 and 8% – when compared to EU economies. Ceteris...