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Overeducation and happiness in the Malaysian graduate labour market

The objective of this paper is to examine overeducation among Malaysian graduates with focus on its association with predetermined (before they enter the labour market) and current level of overall life happiness.Results reveal that there are a substantial percentage of overeducated graduates.Gradua...

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Main Author: Lim, Hock Eam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak 2013
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HD28 Management. Industrial Management
LB2300 Higher Education
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spelling my.uum.repo.101042016-04-18T06:21:00Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/10104/ Overeducation and happiness in the Malaysian graduate labour market Lim, Hock Eam HD28 Management. Industrial Management LB2300 Higher Education The objective of this paper is to examine overeducation among Malaysian graduates with focus on its association with predetermined (before they enter the labour market) and current level of overall life happiness.Results reveal that there are a substantial percentage of overeducated graduates.Graduates who reported a higher level of predetermined happiness are less likely to be overeducated. Overeducation is also significantly and negatively associated with one’s current level of happiness.This finding suggests ‘hysterias’ of overeducation and supports Job Competition Theory’s prediction on persistent of overeducation.Thus, happiness might be one of the reasons why overeducation is a persistent and durable phenomenon. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/10104/1/Ea.pdf Lim, Hock Eam (2013) Overeducation and happiness in the Malaysian graduate labour market. International Journal of Business and Society, 14 (1). pp. 93-110. ISSN 1511-6670 http://www.ijbs.unimas.my/
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topic HD28 Management. Industrial Management
LB2300 Higher Education
spellingShingle HD28 Management. Industrial Management
LB2300 Higher Education
Lim, Hock Eam
Overeducation and happiness in the Malaysian graduate labour market
description The objective of this paper is to examine overeducation among Malaysian graduates with focus on its association with predetermined (before they enter the labour market) and current level of overall life happiness.Results reveal that there are a substantial percentage of overeducated graduates.Graduates who reported a higher level of predetermined happiness are less likely to be overeducated. Overeducation is also significantly and negatively associated with one’s current level of happiness.This finding suggests ‘hysterias’ of overeducation and supports Job Competition Theory’s prediction on persistent of overeducation.Thus, happiness might be one of the reasons why overeducation is a persistent and durable phenomenon.
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author Lim, Hock Eam
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title Overeducation and happiness in the Malaysian graduate labour market
title_short Overeducation and happiness in the Malaysian graduate labour market
title_full Overeducation and happiness in the Malaysian graduate labour market
title_fullStr Overeducation and happiness in the Malaysian graduate labour market
title_full_unstemmed Overeducation and happiness in the Malaysian graduate labour market
title_sort overeducation and happiness in the malaysian graduate labour market
publisher Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
publishDate 2013
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/10104/1/Ea.pdf
http://repo.uum.edu.my/10104/
http://www.ijbs.unimas.my/
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