in the workforce. But with soaring costs of higher education not every potential student has been able to afford the luxury of being a graduate. Over half of college students have shown concern regarding the payment of their college fee. This is the highest this number has been since 1971 (Marill and O’Leary 64-66, 93). Also the increasing trend of unemployment over the entire globe has helped in tightening the terms and conditions for college student debt. Although the financial aids have helped
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Introduction According to the U.S. Department of Labor, unemployment rates have increased to 7.9 percent. The unemployment rate can be defined as the number of people actively looking for a job as to the percentage of the labor force. Although statistics show an increase has occurred, there has also been an increase in higher education jobs. Higher education growth has been steady, stable and greater than overall U.S. jobs. The market share of higher education jobs compared to all U.S. jobs
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CHAPTER 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES This chapter presents the related literature and studies after the thorough and in-depth search done by the researchers. This will also present the synthesis of the art, theoretical and conceptual framework to fully understand the research to be done and lastly the definition of terms for better comprehension of the study. Related Literature Tracer study is an approach which widely being used in most organization especially in the educational
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tracer study to create sustainable learning empowerment environment for the continuous professional development of past students. While many higher education institutions provide training to a variety of clients, most forget them as soon as they graduate and leave the institution’s environment with no means to contact them. Employability upon graduation an over the long term is, understandably, the major priority for the vast majority of our University students. Over the past decades or so the
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September 2011 GRADUATES’ CHARACTERISTICS AND UNEMPLOYMENT: A STUDY AMONG MALAYSIAN GRADUATES Associate Professor Dr. Noor Azina Ismail Department of Applied Statistics Faculty of Economics and Administration University of Malaya 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia E-mail: nazina@um.edu.my, Phone: +603 79673638 Abstract The main objective of this paper is to investigate the effects of graduates’ characteristics on the chance of being employed. A total of 3,025 Malaysian graduates involved in the
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September 2011 GRADUATES’ CHARACTERISTICS AND UNEMPLOYMENT: A STUDY AMONG MALAYSIAN GRADUATES Associate Professor Dr. Noor Azina Ismail Department of Applied Statistics Faculty of Economics and Administration University of Malaya 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia E-mail: nazina@um.edu.my, Phone: +603 79673638 Abstract The main objective of this paper is to investigate the effects of graduates’ characteristics on the chance of being employed. A total of 3,025 Malaysian graduates involved in the study
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Labor Market Consequences of Graduating from College in a Bad Economy* Lisa B. Kahn Yale School of Management First Draft: March, 2003 Current Draft: August 13, 2009 Abstract This paper studies the labor market experiences of white male college graduates as a function of economic conditions at time of college graduation. I use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth whose respondents graduated from college between 1979 and 1989. I estimate the e¤ects of both national and state economic conditions
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A TRACER STUDY ON THE EMPLOYMENT STATUS FOR THE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND COMPUTER STUDIES IN CAPITOL UNIVERSITY FOR S.Y 2010-2015 A RESEARCH Presented to the Graduate Faculty of Doctor of Management Capitol University Cagayan de Oro City In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF MANAGEMENT By RENZ P. AGUHOB LOUELLA YAP BUOT KERWIN SALVADOR P. CARAGOS CJ RANIDO March 2016 APPROVAL SHEET This research, entitled “A Tracer Study on the Employment Status
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Historical Background Unemployment as a concept has attracted large coverage both domestically and internationally. It has been the most persistent and unmanageable problem facing both developed and developing nations of the world. The fact remains that a hundred percent employment exist in no nation of the world. All nations experience at least a minute proportion if not large rate of unemployment and a major macroeconomic goal of most if not all nations is to combat unemployment problems in their economies
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of unemployed college graduates. Moreover, the number of college graduates increases every year. This resulted the increase of job seekers versus job opportunities (1). In fact, the Philippine Star through its website published that there is a 7.5% increase in the unemployment rate for the year 2014. In addition, the Philippine daily inquirer said that there is a 12 million increase in unemployed Filipinos year. In addition to issues like underemployment where in graduates of a 4 year degree course
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