Analysis of the behavior of university students in the labour market

This diploma thesis deals with the analysis of student behavior in the Czech labour market with the influence of foreign study stays according to EUROSTUDENT VI survey. The main aim of the thesis is to find factors influencing this behavior using current scientific knowledge and statistical methods. The theoretical part focuses on the labour market situation in the Czech Republic, education and international mobility of students. Next part of the thesis describes the EUROSTUDENT VI investigation, its basic structure and description of data from this survey. The last part contains methodology of diploma thesis and description of used methods – logistic regression, decision trees and random forests. In the analytical part is described the resulting analysis of data with results and final discussion. Analytical part of the thesis is elaborated in program R. According to the results of logistic regression, it is confirmed that students who have been studying abroad are more likely to have paid work during the semester. Other factors that affect the paid work during the semester include the field of study, form and program of studies, age and whether the student had a paid job before entering college.