Samozatrudnienie absolwentów szkół wyższych jako potencjalna miara ich przedsiębiorczości
Self-employment of University Graduates as a Potential Measure of their Entrepreneurship

Summary/Abstract: RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: Previous researches regarding professional fate of alumni were based on surveys. Since 2017 however the monitoring system using joined data from POLon and ZUS on professional careers of graduates is implemented. Since then the data regarding professional fate of alumni is gathered in the reports from the monitoring system of professional careers of graduates (http://www.ela.nauka.gov.pl/). Therefore it was possible to prepare more detail analysis. The aim of this study is to verify the hypothesis on correlation between the faculty chosen and entrepreneurship of the graduates. THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: To verify the above mentioned hypothesis it was decided to analyse universities of which more than 10% graduates from years 2014 and 2015were registered as self employed. For the sake of this study the detailed data on individual groups of graduates was elaborated. THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: The scope of this study are years 2014 (two years after graduation) and 2015 (one year after graduation). In the study the faculties with highest share of self employed and highest absolute number of self employed were taken into consideration. The faculties that are offered by several universities and of which graduates are in significant share self employed were also included in this study. RESEARCH RESULTS: The results of this study allow to come into conclusion that in case of medical faculties the self employment has no correlation with entrepreneurship. It is however a common practise typical for this field of science or pressure from potential employers. From the other hand, in case of economic faculties, the universities are teaching how to be enterprising and giving knowledge allowing to take a decision to become self employed. CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS: According to the study, in case of the medical faculties it would to be advisable to include in the programmes subjects developing ability to get self employed and run economic activities.

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