The differential access to labor market positions of higher occupational prestige and the type of organizational management of higher education institutions

This paper discusses the effect of relationships between the type of organizational management of institutions of higher education and its effects on the performance of their graduates in the labor market in terms of access to positions of higher occupational prestige (Prates, 2007.2010). The article brings together two separate studies, performed by the authors on this issue. The first one is a qualitative study conducted in 2008 with teachers of private institutions of higher education and a case study the EACH (USP-Leste). The second is a quantitative study conducted in 2011, with data from the PNAD 2007 with the purpose of testing, via linear regression models, whether either  the type of institution - public or private - and type of course  - baccalaureate or technological – affect  student performance in terms of unequal access to jobs with higher prestige in the labor market. The main conclusion, though not definitive, is that the Prates’ hypothesis (2007.2010)  is plausible, namely that the institutional environment generated by the type of internal organizational management of the institution of higher education affects