Soon, Jan Jan and Lee, Angela Siew Hoong * and Lim, Eam Lim and Izian Idris, * and Eng, William Yong Keong * (2019) Cubicles or corner offices? Effects of academic performance on university graduates’ employment likelihood and salary. Studies in Higher Education, 45 (6). pp. 1233-1248. ISSN 0307-5079
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This paper uses a 2016/2017 sample of 1107 freshly minted university graduates from a public and a private university in Malaysia. Against a backdrop of an institutional setting very much different from that of western countries’ and issues of high living costs and graduate unemployment, we analyse how academic performance affects graduates’ employment likelihood, salaries, and salary distribution. Using quantile estimations, we find that academic performance is not a key determinant in whether or not a graduate secures a job upon graduation, and that having better academic performance would only be beneficial if the graduates are working in jobs at the lower half of the salary distribution. We fill the literature gap by analysing how academic performance affects new graduates in terms of where they are on the salary distribution continuum; such analyses are neglected in the literature.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Employment likelihood; salary distribution; academic performance; university graduates; quantile estimation |
| Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education |
| Divisions: | Sunway University > School of Engineering and Technology [formerly School of Science and Technology until 2020] > Dept. Computing and Information Systems Sunway University > Sunway Business School [formerly Sunway University Business School until 2023] > Dept of Marketing Strategy and Innovation [formerly Dept. Marketing] |
| Depositing User: | Dr Janaki Sinnasamy |
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| Date Deposited: | 24 May 2019 03:54 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Oct 2020 08:38 |
| URI: | http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/id/eprint/1045 |
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