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Predicting low employability graduates: The case of Universiti Utara Malaysia

The persistence of the graduate unemployment problem warrants the need for predicting factors that are associated with low employability graduates. It is found that ethnicity, English language proficiency and types of degree obtained are significant predictors of graduates’ employability which is me...

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Main Author: Lim, Hock Eam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: World Scientific Publishing Company 2010
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HD28 Management. Industrial Management
LB2300 Higher Education
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/5095/1/S0.pdf
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0217590810003870
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spelling my.uum.repo.50952012-02-26T02:53:24Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/5095/ Predicting low employability graduates: The case of Universiti Utara Malaysia Lim, Hock Eam HD28 Management. Industrial Management LB2300 Higher Education The persistence of the graduate unemployment problem warrants the need for predicting factors that are associated with low employability graduates. It is found that ethnicity, English language proficiency and types of degree obtained are significant predictors of graduates’ employability which is measured either by the number of days being unemployed or probability of being unemployed. Compared to the Tobit model, the Probit model which does not accommodate the right censoring bias is found to have less predictive power in terms of the number of days being unemployed. World Scientific Publishing Company 2010 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/5095/1/S0.pdf Lim, Hock Eam (2010) Predicting low employability graduates: The case of Universiti Utara Malaysia. The Singapore Economic Review, 55 (03). pp. 523-535. ISSN 0217-5908 http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0217590810003870 doi:10.1142/S0217590810003870
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
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topic HD28 Management. Industrial Management
LB2300 Higher Education
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LB2300 Higher Education
Lim, Hock Eam
Predicting low employability graduates: The case of Universiti Utara Malaysia
description The persistence of the graduate unemployment problem warrants the need for predicting factors that are associated with low employability graduates. It is found that ethnicity, English language proficiency and types of degree obtained are significant predictors of graduates’ employability which is measured either by the number of days being unemployed or probability of being unemployed. Compared to the Tobit model, the Probit model which does not accommodate the right censoring bias is found to have less predictive power in terms of the number of days being unemployed.
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title Predicting low employability graduates: The case of Universiti Utara Malaysia
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title_full Predicting low employability graduates: The case of Universiti Utara Malaysia
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title_full_unstemmed Predicting low employability graduates: The case of Universiti Utara Malaysia
title_sort predicting low employability graduates: the case of universiti utara malaysia
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