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In this paper, we analyse with multivariate statistical methods the frequencies of use of the basic, cross-occupational and occupation-specific competences by employed graduates. The basic idea is that competences may be of a mosaic of graduate’s professional personality. We analyse the relationship between competences and a set of professions. We evaluated the differential effect, on competence use, of the specific degree held by each graduate, so to connect graduate’s features and working environment’s characteristics in terms of a selected set of competences.

The development of the European higher education system, within the frame of the Bologna process, requires that higher education be more and more integrated with the wider economic strategies (Lisbon objectives) and that employability be taken into account by the study programmes. Higher education institutions are invited not only to answer to the needs of the national labour markets but also to incorporate into their perspectives the European one. The Italian university reform provides for a first triennial cycle with educational and training purposes that give graduates an immediate access to the labour market. The labour market requires, on the other hand, graduates to have not only a theoretical education, but also professional competences. This paper aims to build cognitive maps of the study programmes in Statistics and rank the competences required by the job market to graduates in Statistics. We apply for that various methods of multivariate and textual analysis.

The aim of this paper is to analyse the competences used at work and the professional profiles for people who graduated in Statistics at the University of Padua. Our study, accomplished by means of correspondence analysis and cluster analysis, highlights a general consistency between the formative profiles modelled at the Statistics Faculty and the tasks performed by graduates. Moreover, our analysis points out that several graduates are working in clerical jobs that do not allow them to use the competences they achieved during their university studies.

In this paper, we present a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the competences and employability of graduates in Social Work. Our approach follows the methodological lines of the Credits project, which includes the statistical analysis of interviews with experts, such as teaching staff and entrepreneurs, mail questionnaires, focus groups, and the textual analysis of documents. Our target is the entire population of social workers in Tuscany. We expect to create indicators of the competences required by the job market, verify the efficacy level of education and training, and create an interactive systematic relation between academe and the labour market.

In this paper, after defining a pseudo-panel of groups observed at subsequent times, we propose a strategy for the construction of a set of association rules related to different survey occasions. First, we measure the similarity between systems built at different times for understanding the stability of the phenomenon. We apply a procedure developed for symbolic data analysis for this purpose. The procedure consists of two phases: the definition of the pseudo-panel and that of a system of rules referred to the semantic marking technique. Then, the agreement between the systems is measured. We applied such a strategy for studying the labour market accessibility for graduate in Economics, the University of Naples “Federico II”, and the market evolution during an eight-year time span.

In this paper, we propose a method for the evaluation of relative and impact external efficiency of university studies as effects of education on the long-term income of graduates. In order to evaluate the “ceteris paribus” levels and growth we applied a multilevel longitudinal model with random effects. The variables used in our analysis refer to Human Capital studies. The Bank of Italy has collected the data used for the analysis in the years 1998, 2000 and 2002.

Our paper focuses on the law of growth of the human capital deriving from the evaluation of undergraduates’ human capital due to university education. For this purpose, we introduce the definition of University Human Capital (UHC), a kind of human capital that sums up to the other kinds of human capital and that acts, for the concerned companies, as a detector of competences owned by graduates. It follows that UHC can be interpreted also as a component of the “intellectual capital” that characterizes the different kinds of enterprises. UHC individual growth trajectories are to be established by means of two-level growth models. We attempt to synthesise the law of individual UHC growth through both a logistic and a Gompertz function.