Socio-economic and cultural factors that influence the labor insertion of University Graduates, Peru

• Main Authors: Pedro Jesús Maquera-Luque, José Luis Morales-Rocha, Cynthia Milagros Apaza-Panca
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2021-07-01
• Series: Heliyon
• Subjects: Social factors; Economic factors; Cultural factors; Labor insertion; Multivariate model; Logistic regression
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844021015231

Access to the labor market by graduates of the National University of Moquegua is limited by a wide range of socioeconomic and cultural factors. The study aimed to develop a multivariate model to identify the socioeconomic and cultural factors that influence labor insertion of graduates of the National University of Moquegua, 2019. The type of research according to its purpose was basic and the non-experimental cross-sectional design, with a stratified random sample with proportional allocation with a significance level of 5% and a sampling error of 7%. The data collection technique was the survey and two validated and reliable instruments were applied. The population consisted of 537 graduates, with a sample of 121 graduates from six Professional Schools. The results of the application of logistic regression models indicate that the employment status (Wald = 21.179 and p-value = 0.000), basic electricity services (Wald = 4.567 and p-value = 0.033), the preference for movies (Wald = 6,136 and p-value = 0.013), and the communications media: TV and radio (Wald = 4.962 and p-value = 0.026) significantly influence the labor insertion of graduates of UNAM. It is concluded that both the working condition, electricity services, the preference for movies and communication media like TV and radio significantly influence the labor insertion of graduates of the National University of Moquegua.