The study has shown that remuneration grows along with the level of education. In the 18–35 age group, respondents who are HEI graduates earn on average PLN 3,038 net (men: PLN 3,996 net; women: PLN 2,556 net), which is more than people of the same age who did not graduate from HEIs, and at the same time they earn less than older respondents with the same level of education. Graduate tracer studies and panel surveys conducted in Poland In Poland, various graduate tracer studies, both centralised and decentralised, are carried out. At the central level, they are conducted by research institutes and units and are usually grant-funded. Individual higher education institutions also undertake such studies. Studies conducted by HEIs
Graduate tracer studies are carried out by almost all universities in Poland and have a narrow scope – they concern graduates of individual higher education institutions and are usually related to a given course of studies. An online survey is the most commonly used study method. The questionnaire is sent to respondents via email. The biggest deficiency of such analyses results from their diversity: although the methodologies used by individual universities are usually similar and many questions overlap, the structure of individual questionnaires varies considerably, as does the time of survey dispatch and the number of data collections (usually respondents answer the questionnaire once, but some HEIs send them to their graduates on numerous occasions, also several years after completion of studies). Because of the limited number of respondents and low response rates, these analyses may be of use to individual HEIs, but they are not representative of the entire student population in Poland. Panel survey From school to work
A nationwide survey on the situation of young people on the labour market and, in particular, their transition from education to employment was entitled From School to Work: Individual and Institutional Indicators of Education and Career Paths of Young Poles (FS2W)6. The survey aimed at tracing the relationship between the skill quality and level (taking gender, cultural capital and social background into account) and education and careers of young Poles. It was a continuation of work undertaken as part of a research project entitled: Dalsza Nauka i Praca [Continuing Education and Work], which focused on
6. www.fs2in.ifispan.waw.pl [Accessed: 21.09.2018].
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