Employability and Wage Compensation in an Asian Economy: Evidence for Female College Graduates in Taiwan

Chiu, Shih-Yung; Chuang, Hwei–Lin

doi:10.1080/1540496x.2015.1117844

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“…According to Chiu and Chuang (2016), the required skills can be divided into four categories: attitude (working and team working abilities), learn (passive, active and futureoriented learning), know (specialized, professional knowledge and their application) and career management skills. Olivier et al (2014) constructed the required skills into six clusters: adaptive capacity, foundation skills, teamwork, interpersonal skills, IT skills, technical-and domain-specific skills and employability skills.…”

Section: Competencies and Successmentioning

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Competencies and success measured by net income among Hungarian HE graduates

Kuráth

Sipos

2020

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to show the effects of the six competence areas of Garcia-Aracil and Van der Velden (2007) on new graduates' labor market success measured by salary.Design/methodology/approachThe paper starts with a literature review about the role of competencies in higher education. Then the Graduate Career Tracking System (GCTS) carried out at the University of Pécs (UP) in Hungary provides a good basis to understand the competence assessment methodology better. Furthermore, GCTS is suitable for carrying out an exploratory, a confirmatory factor analysis and an OLS regression to discover the connection between competencies and level of income.FindingsThe analyzed results, using a representative online survey based on 6,190 respondents, show that the six competence sets do exist, but that not all of them have a significant effect on salaries. With the control variables involved, 24.3% (EFA) and 23.0% (CFA) of the global competencies account for variance in salaries. The impact of methodological and the socioemotional set on salaries can be clearly seen among those with new degrees, and based on the results and the literature review, the HEIs can improve them.Research limitations/implicationsIn the absence of nationwide general competence assessment, the results are limited only for the UP graduates of Hungary, even if this HEI is one of the biggest ones.Practical implicationsBased on the results, more soft-competence development courses and opportunities should be offered by the HEIs.Originality/valueThe findings of the study help us to understand the role of the institutions in tertiary education, the extra service to be provided to assist students in being successful in life. Based on the literature review, there is a need to understand better the connection between competencies and labor market success. This paper contributes to this and also presents an opportunity for further comparative research. The sample is robust to allow other researchers to use this conceptual model and apply it to other countries.

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Section: Competencies and Successmentioning

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Competencies and success measured by net income among Hungarian HE graduates

Kuráth

Sipos

2020

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“…In addition, so-called soft skills, needed in virtually all jobs, regardless of field, are important for the student's future. Several wide-ranging studies have presented reference frameworks and different groupings for soft skills [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11]. It is highly challenging to exactly define the skills that make a graduate more employable, and no total consensus on the issue has been reached [1], [12].…”

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Business Cooperation - Improving The Working Life Relevance of Higher Education

Myllymäki

Määttälä

Hakala

2021

2021 30th Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering (EAEEIE)

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Education programmes should provide students with the skills for working life. This is important not only for students, but also for companies. Skills refers, in addition to competence in a specific area, to general competencies, working life practices in common use and, for example, knowledge of software used in the business world. It is even more important to take into account the needs of working life when teaching adult students, who often study alongside work with the aim of progressing in their careers. In spring 2019, Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius conducted a survey targeting information and communication technology (ICT) companies in its local area. The results highlighted the attitude of the job seeker in the recruitment phase. The employers valued qualifications, but still emphasized the ability to work independently as well as social and teamwork skills as the most important things. This survey provides a good starting point for taking into account the needs of the business world when developing education. This paper reviews the results of the survey and discusses how education providers and students can take them into account in their own activities.

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Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) Tourism Decisions Within Collective Cultures: Insights from Taiwanese Hosts Residing in Brisbane, Australia

Tham

Raciti

2018

Asian Cultures and Contemporary Tourism

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Employability and Wage Compensation in an Asian Economy: Evidence for Female College Graduates in Taiwan

Cited by 10 publications

References 21 publications

Competencies and success measured by net income among Hungarian HE graduates

Competencies and success measured by net income among Hungarian HE graduates

Business Cooperation - Improving The Working Life Relevance of Higher Education

Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) Tourism Decisions Within Collective Cultures: Insights from Taiwanese Hosts Residing in Brisbane, Australia

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