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BE YOUR OWN BOSS, ANYONE? EARNINGS, EMPLOYMENT CHANCES AND JOB CHOICE OF FRESH UNIVERSITY GRADUATES

International Journal of Business and Society

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Title BE YOUR OWN BOSS, ANYONE? EARNINGS, EMPLOYMENT CHANCES AND JOB CHOICE OF FRESH UNIVERSITY GRADUATES
 
Creator Soon, Jan-Jan
Lim, Hock-Eam
 
Description Whether or not one can get employed, how much one can earn, and what types of job one gets are typically the main concerns of newly minted university graduates. In this study, we have collected data from fresh graduates of two public universities in Malaysia, i.e. on actual job choices that fresh graduates have made, their monthly earnings, and whether or not they are employed. With these data, our study contributes to the empirical literature and focuses on the issue of whether or not entrepreneurship education is significant in influencing earnings, employment probabilities, and types of job. The main conclusions from our findings are (i) graduate entrepreneurs’ monthly earnings are higher than graduates employed in qualification-mismatched jobs, but lower than those with qualification-matching jobs, (ii) graduates with entrepreneurship degrees earn less than those with non-entrepreneurship degrees, (iii) having an entrepreneurship degree has no significant influence on employment chances, and (iv) an entrepreneurship degree also is also insignificantly associated with any of the probabilities of landing a job that is either commensurate or incommensurate with one’s degree, or the probabilities of being unemployed.Keywords: Employment Probability; Earning; Job Choice; Graduate Entrepreneur.
 
Publisher Faculty of Economics and Business, UNIMAS
 
Date 2017-11-21
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://publisher.unimas.my/ojs/index.php/IJBS/article/view/539
 
Source International Journal of Business and Society; Vol 17 No 3 (2016): International Journal of Business and Society
1511-6670
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://publisher.unimas.my/ojs/index.php/IJBS/article/view/539/483
 
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