In this paper, I present evidence that the premium for a college education is essentially uncorrelated with the business cycle and that the average hours worked by college graduates are less volatile than those worked by nongraduates. Business cycle theory is then shown to be inconsistent with these observations when endogenous utilization and skill acquisition are incorporated. Abstracting fro...

ICT professionals face rapid technology development, changes in design paradigms, methodologies, approaches and cooperation patterns. These changes impact relationships between universities that teach ICT disciplines and industrial organizations that develop and use ICT-based products. The required knowledge and skills of university graduates depend mainly on the current industrial situation th...

a glance at rapid change in societies and the trend of global progress along with development and the necessity to go along in – direction with this growth, demanstrate the value of entrepreneurship more than any other time. the purpose of this research was to study factors influencing entrepreneurship of agricultural graduates as viewed from viewpoint of the faculty members. survey method was ...

This paper analyses polytechnic graduate placement in Finnish manufacturing. The paper uses a register-based data source covering white-collar manufacturing workers over the period 1995–2004. Taken together, the results show that wages and job classification are higher for polytechnic graduates, once other covariates are controlled for. Despite this, almost 20% of graduates from polytechnics ha...

OBJECTIVE To survey medical graduates from the University of Hong Kong on how well they perceived their learning needs had been fulfilled by the old (before 1997) and the new (after 1997) curricula. DESIGN Retrospective questionnaire survey. SETTING The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS Medical graduates from the University of Hong Kong who graduated between 1997 and 2006 w...

This paper presents a two level factor model describing gender differences in perceptions of the relative contribution and importance of education and skills required of new information systems (IS) professionals. Model development took account of technical skills found in most IS programs, other business oriented academic studies, and soft skills sought by employers in new graduates. The model...

In 1989 the Hong Kong government embarked on a program to increase the provision of first-year first-degree places. The expansion of tertiary education represents a large and exogenous increase in supply of university graduates to the territory. This paper measures the labor market effects of the expansion program by studying the changes in earnings premium for university graduates. Two alterna...

The project to strengthen Pancasila students is a program of the Ministry Education Republic Indonesia in Vocational High Schools (SMK) which will be implemented 2021-2022. program's achievement indicator improvement students' ability adapt challenges and global dynamics business industrial world. specific objective create graduates who continue highest level education, are able work have entre...

Good Skills in Bad Times: Cyclical Skill Mismatch and the Long-Term Effects of Graduating in a Recession We show that cyclical skill mismatch, defined as mismatch between the skills supplied by college graduates and skills demanded by hiring industries, is an important mechanism behind persistent career loss from graduating in recessions. Using Norwegian data, we find a strong countercyclical p...

The complex and widely‐spread problems that occur in the current business world need multiply skilled employees to solve them. Solving complicated problems also requires scholars and researchers to collaborate with colleagues outside of their own discipline. Hence, educational institutions are constantly striving to develop study programs that aim to combine, integrate, mix or ...