Z. Manlaibaatar, IRIM

Proposal on Labor Market Survey for Higher

Education Activities

Summary

Project: Higher Education Reform Project

Name of the service: Higher Education Responsiveness to

Labor Market

Client: MECS through ADB

Consultant: IRIM LLC

Duration: Jan 2015 – May 2016

Core team: consists of 4 international and 4 national

consultants

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Core team International consultants

D. Lkhagvasuren Labor economist, NUM and Concordia University, Canada

Vincent Costa HE specialist on program and curriculum review, USA

Stephen Duggan HE specialist on career guidance, Australia

Saha Meyanathan HE specialist on industry partnership, chief of Business

Council of Mongolia, Malaysia

National consultants

Z. Manlaibaatar Economist, team leader, IRIM

N. Batchimeg HE specialist on program and curriculum review, NUM

Ts. Tsetsegmaa HE specialist on career guidance, NUM

Ch. Tamir HE specialist on industry partnership, IRIM

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Objective

Provide technical assistance in designing, conducting and

analyzing:

Graduate Tracer Study

Employer’s Satisfaction Survey

Labor Market Study

Provide technical assistance in preparing reports to be

used to:

Review HE programs and curriculum

Provide career information and guidance for students

Develop industry training programs and joint research

projects

Consider comments and suggestions of MECS and HEIs

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Developing

methodology

and tools

Meeting and

discussion

Training on

research

methodology

Jan-Apr, 2015

January 2015

Apr-Nov, 2015 Jul-Dec, 2015

Inception Survey and study Training and reporting

Pilot data collection

and analysis of:

• Graduate tracer

study

• Labor market

study

• Employer

satisfaction survey

Training and

guidance note on

• Curriculum review

• Career guidance

• Industry partnership

May, 2016

Timeline

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Proposal for Labor Market Survey

Labor market is crucial to HEIs

The important things to study labor market are: Systematic data

Quality of data collection

Avoiding too complex design

Mongolian universities have experiences on that

We follow the TOR of the assignment from ADB

The main activity is to provide technical assistance

Consider comments and suggestions of MECS and

HEIs

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A. Graduate tracer survey

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Panel survey – Repeat two years later

2 times a year

In every spring, graduates of last year

In every autumn, graduates who graduated from three years ago

Year Season 2012

graduated

2013

graduates

2014

graduates

2015

graduates

2016

graduates

2015 Spring GTS-1

Autumn GTS-2

2016 Spring GTS-1

Autumn GTS-2

2017 Spring GTS-1

Autumn GTS-2

2018 Spring

Autumn GTS-2

... ... ... ...

A. Graduate tracer survey

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The design is proposed to all HEIs

HEIs contact and interview with their all graduates

Data collection method is phone/online questionnaire

Shools prepare their own reports

MECS or NSO also will collect all data from HEIs and

do policy analysis

B. Employer satisfaction survey

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Cross sectional survey

Based on contact information of employers of

graduates (obtained during)

Review with as many as employers

In-depth interview with some major employers

C. Review of Labor market studies

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Quarterly Labor force survey, NSO

Annual Barometer survey, MOL

Annual Graduate Employment survey, MOL

Mid and long term projection for labor force demand

and supply: 2013-2023, MOL

Youth employment survey, 2015 RAND;

Survey of Informal Employment, 2013, MOL

Main indicators

Employment by programs

Job search duration, unemployed duration by

programs

Labor income by programs

Employers’ satisfaction by programs

Opportunities for university-industry partnership

Return of higher education Economic return or college premium

Regional specifics Difference between urban and rural

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Challenges

Cooperation with or through Institute for Labor

Study, Ministry of Labor

Cooperation with or through Education Institute,

Ministry of Education, Culture and Science

Get approval from Permanent Council of

Methodology, National Statistics Office

How much effort do HEIs make? Most HEIs have no

research capacity and resources (incentive?)

Role of private or non-government research institute

Role of Employers organizations

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Thank you for attention !

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