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Predicting Low Employability Graduates: The Case Of Universiti Utara Malaysia

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  • HOCK-EAM LIM

    (Faculty of Economics, Universiti Utara Malaysia, 06010 Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia;
    Department of Economics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia)

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The persistence of the graduate unemployment problem warrants the need for predicting factors that are associated with low employability graduates. It is found that ethnicity, English language proficiency and types of degree obtained are significant predictors of graduates' employability which is measured either by the number of days being unemployed or probability of being unemployed. Compared to the Tobit model, the Probit model which does not accommodate the right censoring bias is found to have less predictive power in terms of the number of days being unemployed.

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  • Hock-Eam Lim, 2010. "Predicting Low Employability Graduates: The Case Of Universiti Utara Malaysia," The Singapore Economic Review (SER), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 55(03), pages 523-535.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:serxxx:v:55:y:2010:i:03:n:s0217590810003870
    DOI: 10.1142/S0217590810003870
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    1. Clive Payne and Joan Payne, 2000. "early Identification of Long Term Unemployed," PSI Research Discussion Series 4, Policy Studies Institute, UK.
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    1. Rosna Awang-Hashim & Hock Eam Lim & Bidin Yatim & Tengku Faekah Tengku Ariffin & Ainol Madziah Zubairi & Haniza Yon & Omar Osman, 2015. "Estimating A Prediction Model For The Early Identification Of Low Employability Graduates In Malaysia," The Singapore Economic Review (SER), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 60(04), pages 1-22.

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    Keywords

    Statistical prediction model; early identification; graduate unemployment; J64; I29;
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    JEL classification:

    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
    • I29 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Other

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