Panorama general 1970 al 2005 de la matrí­cula y el egreso universitarios en México como indicadores de la tensión en el mercado laboral

Abstract

This work presents some of the advances made by a project related to professional employment of graduates from public and private universities in Mexico. Specifically, it describes the results of the stage of quantitative investigation of the characteristics of matriculation and graduation in higher education, by area of study, major and modality, from 1970 to 2005. The work encompasses the total national population as well as some of the characteristics of labor participation at the professional level. The work is focused on the population of public and private institutions because of the growing presence of the latter in addressing demand and in order to understand the labor market, which appears to be increasingly more competitive and institutionally differentiated. Our work is based on the supposition that the quantitative exploration of the dynamic of higher education in Mexico over the last 35 years offers elements to identify some of the characteristics of professional labor markets and the levels of tension due to saturation. The study's quantitative investigation is one dimension, among others, that to a certain extent contributes to understanding the role of education in the labor market and, in general, the social function of education; two of the broader objectives of the project presented herein