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SHOULD WE BLAME THE GRADUATES FOR THEIR UNEMPLOYMENT? A HAPPINESS APPROACH

Hock Eam Lim & Hongbo Duan

Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics2015https://doi.org/10.15057/27602article
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Abstract

This paper estimates change of happiness of Malaysian graduates who are in the stage of transition from university to labour market and tests the voluntary unemployment hypothesis using a happiness approach. It is found that a substantial deterioration in the graduate's happiness occurs during the transition. The change in happiness of unemployed graduates are not differ significantly from graduates who are self-employed, part-time or full-time employed with employment that does not commensurate with qualification. Thus, we could not reject the voluntary unemployment hypothesis and the graduates could be partially blamed for their unemployment.

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@article{hock2015,
  title        = {{SHOULD WE BLAME THE GRADUATES FOR THEIR UNEMPLOYMENT? A HAPPINESS APPROACH}},
  author       = {Hock Eam Lim & Hongbo Duan},
  journal      = {Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics},
  year         = {2015},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.15057/27602},
}

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