The Effect of University Education on Student Job Market Performance and Ability Development：The Case of Recent Economics Graduates in Taiwan
Date Issued
2007
Date
2007
Author(s)
Pu, Hsin-Chih
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
This study concerns mainly about the effect of university education on student job market performance and ability development. The data come mainly from the questionnaires of the exceptional plans of the ministry of education. We choose three measures to represent the aspect of job market performance, which are the first wage, present wage and the time spent on looking for the first job. Moreover, we also find some appropriate measures to contain the other side of the performance of the graduates, say three measures of ability development, which are the growth of cognition, tender regards and skills. The growth of cognition is composed of oral ability, ability of paperwork, ability of solving problems, how well they can make use of their knowledge of major field and non-major field. The growth of tender regards is composed of interpersonal relationship and leadership. The growth of skills is composed of foreign language and computer skills. We construct three models to assess the effect of university education, which are job market performance model, ability development model and wage frontier model. The first two models are used to discuss job market performance and ability development of the graduates respectively. The wage frontier model obtained by the correction of stochastic frontier model concerns about the existence of imperfect information in the labor market. Followings are some empirical findings of this study:
1.The impact of university education on job market is only significant when discussing the first wage. As time goes by, the impact decreases dramatically.
2.There is large impact of university education on ability development.
3.The wage is mainly determined by the labor market experience variables and social-economic variables each graduate has.
4.Other things being equal, Men always get more wage than women, but there is no difference when discussing their ability development.
5.Non-academic training plays a more important role on deciding how long each graduate looks for their first job than academic training.
Finally, we give the students who are going to join the university entrance exam and who are studying in university now, parents and educational authorities some useful suggestions from our empirical results.
Subjects
學校教育
大學品質
教育經驗
學生表現
隨機邊界
School Education
School Quality
Educational Experience
Student Performance
Stochastic Frontier
Type
thesis
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