Социальное происхождение и содержание труда на старте карьеры выпускников российских вузов

Социологические исследования. 2026. № 4. С. 43–57.

Nikitin M., Lukina A.

The article examines the relationship between family socio-economic status and the content of work performed by university graduates in Russia at the beginning of their professional careers. While most studies of educational inequality focus on income or employment outcomes, this study shifts attention to the characteristics of the work performed as an indicator of job quality. The key analytical variable is the level of task routineness, which reflects the degree to which job tasks are standardized and formalized. The empirical basis of the study is the longitudinal survey Trajectories in Education and Profession. The results show that graduates from families without higher education are significantly more likely to be employed in positions dominated by routine tasks, whereas graduates from more educated families are more often concentrated in non-routine jobs involving more complex cognitive and analytical activities. These findings suggest that social origin continues to structure the quality of graduates’ early labour-market positions even when they possess formally similar educational credentials.

Keywords: рынок труда, высшее образование, социальная мобильность, молодежь, labour market, social mobility, higher education, карьерные траектории, career trajectories, содержание труда, social origin, job-task content, routine work, рутинность труда, социальное происхождение

Publication based on the results of: Decision-making in key life spheres: space of choice and the role of individual characteristics and contextual factors (2025)