Open AccessBecoming economically independent
Author(s) -
Marisa Civardi,
Franca Crippa
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
metodološki zvezki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.127
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1854-0031
pISSN - 1854-0023
DOI - 10.51936/fzlo4295
Subject(s) - graduation (instrument) , psychology , period (music) , demographic economics , longitudinal study , function (biology) , developmental psychology , medicine , economics , engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , pathology , evolutionary biology , acoustics , biology
This paper analyses patterns of behaviours of about three thousand graduates in some northern and central Italian universities. Different approaches to the job market and/or to further qualifications are followed up during the year after graduation and are related both to some choices adopted previously at university and to family traits, by means of longitudinal methods of Event History Analysis (EHA). Apparent behavioural inertia from college to the postgraduate period reveals a commonly shared underlying attitude. Also, family influence seems well conveyed by parents' educational levels, which emphasize the mothers' role in improving graduates qualifications and the fathers' function in involving their children in self employment.