Sökning: "graduate employment"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden graduate employment.

  1. 1. Higher Education and the Labor Market : A Study of University Access and Graduate Employment Opportunities in Nigera

    Författare :Ejiaga Romanus; Vinayagum Chinapah; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Higher education; university access; labor market; job opportunity; employment; business administration; admissions; occupation; graduate output; quota system; Nigeria; International education; Internationell pedagogik; internationell pedagogik; International Education;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines problems of access to university education and graduate employment opportunities in Nigeria. Specifically, the study investigates issues of equality of opportunity in university education, quotas in admissions, geographical dispersion of higher educational institutions, student finance, university resources, student characteristics, university output, and the transition of graduates to the labor market. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Högre utbildning och arbete med personal- och arbetslivsfrågor : Om professionalisering och utveckling av anställningsbarhet

    Författare :Maria Löfgren Martinsson; Pedagogik; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; graduate employment; Higher education; professional competence; Human Resource work; contextual-didactic perspective; Human Resource development; employability; arbete med personal- och arbetslivsfrågor; personalvetare; kompetens; professionalisering; miljöpedagogiskt perspektiv; anställningsbarhet;

    Sammanfattning : The issue of higher education and its relation to the working life of graduates has been intensely discussed since the beginning of the 1990’s. There have been constant complaints about an alleged mismatch between graduate competence and competence required by potential employers, regardless of field. LÄS MER

  3. 3. Essays on Immigrants' Economic Integration

    Författare :Kerem Tezic; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Second-generation immigrants; educational attainments; early labour-market experiences; competing-risks; graduate employment; calibration; first-generation immigrants; sample-selection in panel data; random effects.;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of five papers, related to each other in terms of study-sample, study-subject or methods used. The first paper is concerned with second-generation immigrants' educational attainments, using the Longitudinal Individual Data-set (LINDA), which gave us the possibility to examine changes over time, from ages 16-17 to 21-22 and to compare second-generation immigrants with a randomly-chosen matched control-group of native Swedes. LÄS MER

  4. 4. Essays on Labor Economics: Education, Employment, and Gender

    Författare :Qian Liu; Bertil Holmlund; Oskar Nordström Skans; Eskil Wadensjö; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Nationalekonomi; nationalekonomi; Economics;

    Sammanfattning : Essay I, co-authored with Bertil Holmlund and Oskar Nordström Skans, offers evidence on how delayed transitions to higher education (“gap years”) affect subsequent earnings and lifetime earnings. We exploit rich Swedish register data and find that postponement of higher education is associated with a persistent and non-trivial earnings penalty. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Exploring the sustainability of improvement activities : the long-term development of a suggestion scheme

    Författare :Cecilia Rapp; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Continuous improvements; Change; Survival; Longevity;

    Sammanfattning : The practice of working with improvement activities is widespread in organisations today. Improvement activities are part of the new ISO 9000 standard, and could be in the form of Six Sigma programs, suggestion schemes, or process orientation, for example. LÄS MER