The employment rate for Madrid public university graduates is 5 points higher than the Spanish average
A study by the Conference of University Social Councils in the Madrid Autonomous Community
12/18/15
- The Madrid Autonomous Community Conference of Social Councils recently presented its study on employment for graduates from Madrid public universities.
- The study highlights the noteworthy position of the Madrid Autonomous Community of Madrid within the Spanish University System (SUE in Spanish) with regard to university graduate employment.
- UC3M held the Conference presidency during 2015-2016.
The study revealed that the percentage of Madrid Autonomous Community public university graduates registered in the Social Security system is 5 points higher than that for graduates from other public universities in the rest of Spain (68.6% and 63.7% respectively).
Furthermore, the study divulges that the highest percentage of employees signed up as self-employed workers corresponds to the Madrid Autonomous Community universities (10.9% compared to 10.3% in all of Spain), and the percentage of those registered in the system with a permanent work contract in the Madrid Autonomous Community is higher than the rest of Spain (61.7% versus 50.7%). The percentage of those registered in “group A” (university graduates) in the Madrid Autonomous Community tops the figure for the rest of Spain by ten percentage points (66.1% versus 56.5%). As for the average amount of the Social Security contribution base, the Madrid Autonomous Community scores 6.35 points higher than that for all of Spain.
The study analyzed data for 35,876 Madrid Autonomous Community 2009-2010 academic year graduates, out of the 190,749 total graduates from the Spanish University System during that period, with particular focus on the 28,271 public university graduates from the Madrid Autonomous Community (78.8% of total graduates).
The research team which undertook this study analyzed the level and quality of employment for public university graduates, as well as the employment rate for different degrees through the Social Security registration data. The study was carried out data on the Madrid Autonomous Community in the first report, “Inserción laboral de los egresados universitarios. La perspectiva de la afiliación a la Seguridad Social” (Employment of university graduates. From the perspective of Social Security registration) undertaken by an initiative from the Conference of Social Councils of Spanish Universities and carried out by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. with the collaboration of the Directorate General of Social Security.
