Graduate Economics Research Articles

Analisa Faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi Keputusan Mahasiswa Memilih Kuliah di Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Ekonomi Indonesia (STEI) Jakarta

This research was conducted at Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Ekonomi Indonesia (STEI) Jakarta. The study population is STEI New Student of academic year 2016/2017 totaling 1,062 people, sampling using Slovin amounted to 295 students of STEI in S1 Accounting Study Program, S1 Management, Accounting D3 and D3 of Trade Management. Sampling technique with random sampling or random. This research uses descriptive analysis method. The result of validity test of internal factor and external factor r-count all bigger than r-table mean all statement is valid. Reliability test results show all statements both internal and external realibel because crobach Alpha is 0.780 and 0.729 above 0.6. The results show that STEI Student Candidates from the beginning of the majority aspire to become an economics graduate. Most of the respondents believe that STEI graduates will get a good job. The majority respondents felt they had a talent in the field of economics. The majority enter STEI because STEI accreditation is B and in deciding place of college majority factor of location that is close to campus, besides because of tuition in STEI is affordable. Suggestion of lectures at STEI which is dominant is advice from parents then from friends. The majority of STEI Student Candidates receive information from brochures and banners, receive very little information from advertisements on newspapers, radio, television, internet and STEI presentations at school

دراسة أثر البیئة التدریبیة بمصانع صباغة الأقمشة والمنسوجات على خریجى کلیات الاقتصاد المنزلى قسم الملابس والنسیج

ملخص البحث دراسة أثر البيئة التدريبية بمصانع صباغة الأقمشة والمنسوجات على خريجى کليات الاقتصاد المنزلى قسم الملابس والنسيج هدف البحث الحالى الى دراسة أثر البيئة التدريبية بمصانع صباغة الأقمشة والمنسوجات على خريجى کليات الاقتصاد المنزلى قسم الملابس والنسيج , تحديد مواصفات البيئة التدريبية بمصانع صباغة الاقمشة والمنسوجات قياس اثر البيئة التدريبية بمصانع صباغة الاقمشة والمنسوجات على خريجى الاقتصاد المنزلى قسم الملابس والنسيج باستخدام مقياس قبلى / بعدى. وقد شملت أدوات البحث على : مقياس قبلى /بعدى للبيئة التدريبية بصانع صباغة الأقمشة والمنسوجات وأثره على خريجى کليات الاقتصاد المنزلى تخصص الملابس والنسيج . وبعد تطبيق القياس القبلى / البعدى على عينة البحث , وتطبيق أدوات البحث تطبيقا قبلي / بعدي وتجميع البيانات تم حساب المتوسط الحسابى والإنحراف المعيارى وقيمة ت لاستخلاص نتائج البحث وتوصل البحث إلى نتائج من أبرزها : فروق ذات دلالة احصائية بين متوسطى درجات القياس القبى /البعدى حيث بلغ المتوسط الحسابى للقياس البعدى 98.75 بينما بلغ المتوسط الحسابى للقياس القبلى 84.83 وبلغت قيمة ت3.46 وهى قيمة دالة احصائيا عند مستوى دالة 0.05 ممايوکد على وجود فروق بين متوسطى درجات القياس القبلى /البعدى لصالح البعدى ويوصى البحث الحالى فى ضوء النتائج التى توصل إليها إلى توفير بيئة صالحة للتدريب بمصانع صباغة الاقمشة والمنسوجات , متابعة نتائج اثر البيئة التدريبية على المتدربين اثناء التدريب و بعد الانتهاء من التدريب, مراعاة الخدمات التى تساعد على توفير البيئة التديبية الصالحة للتدريب , الاهتمام بالبيئة التدريبية ضمن برنامج التدريب وخاصة بمصانع صباغة الاقمشة والمنسوجات. Abstract In dying factories of textiles on home economic calleges of clothing and textile department The aim of this research is to study the effect of training environment in dyeing fabrics and textiles factories on graduates of the faculties of home economics department of clothing and textiles, determine the specifications of the training environment in dyeing factories of fabrics and textiles. Measuring the effect of the training environment in dyeing factories of textiles and textiles on the graduates of home economics and clothing department using a tribal / post scale The research tools included: a tribal / post scale for the training environment in the textile and textile dyeing industry and its impact on graduates of the faculties of home economics specializing in clothing and textile. After applying the pre / post measurement on the research sample and applying the research tools before and after the application and compiling the data, the arithmetic mean, the standard deviation and the value of T were calculated to extract the search results. The mean of the telemetry was 98.75 while the mean of the tribal measurement was 84.83 and the value of T was 3.46, which is statistically significant at the level of 0.05, which shows the differences between the mean of the pre / post measurement in favor of the dimension. The current research is recommended in the light of its findings to provide a suitable environment for training in dyeing factories of fabrics and textiles, follow up the results of the impact of the training environment on the trainees during training and after the completion of training, taking into account the services that help to provide a suitable training environment, attention to the training environment within the program Training, especially dyeing factories for fabrics and textiles.

Diversity, knowledge clusters, and job placement: Graduate economics teaching of core microeconomics

ABSTRACTThe authors present an empirical analysis of what is taught in core micro-economics at a set of top U.S. doctoral economics programs. Their aim is to evaluate the diversity across programs and assess whether there are distinct “schools of thought” in graduate economics education. Their empirical findings reveal substantial, in fact, surprising diversity in what is taught. Application of a clustering algorithm results in programs clustering into two main “schools of thought.” The authors also specify an econometric model of job placement. Their job placement results indicate that candidates are more likely to be hired at schools in the same cluster as their home program, even after controlling for other factors. The results inform debates about graduate education and the relevance of a “common core” curriculum.

Research Notes. Learning from Shabolovka

Urbanism is about research, experimentation, and dialogue. It is the art of posing the right questions about the urban environment, and the science of making the tools to discover relevant answers. The mindset underpinning practical urbanism is no longer dominated by intentions, professional intuition, and visionary concepts alone: Prior to the actual design and planning work, urban designers must now conduct thorough contextual research and intensive quests for analytical insights. These developments in the field of urbanism provide a fundamental basis for the two-year Advanced Urban Design Master’s program, developed by the Higher School of Economics Graduate School of Urbanism and the Strelka Institute. For this reason, Anastasia Smirnova, the academic supervisor of our program, and Theo Doitinger, founder of TD Architects, created the “Learning from Shabolovka” workshop. It focused on contextual analyses of Shabolovka Street in central Moscow, the hub of one of HSE’s busiest campuses.The structure of this four-week workshop had several focuses: conceptualizing and posing inquiry questions, field research, data creation/collection, and finally, the presentation of its findings. Intensive field research of Shabolovka Street was essential for the workshop, as it was the main source of overall research data. Surveys and analyses of doors facing the street, the density of outdoor and indoor lighting, and the ways that coffee-to-go is purchased on the street represent new types of urban data and “urban devices” of a high explanatory power. The collection of this data alone, even without the subsequent research, represents the extraordinary value added by this group of workshop participants. The abstracts below summarize the workshop’s main findings by six groups of bright and talented students, each with its own research story and amazing results. Read and enjoy.

Assessing the Need of Islamic Economics Curriculum In the Nigerian Universities: The Case of Bayero University, Kano

The persistent deterioration of trust among managers of the economy in one hand and the declining confidence level of the public on economic and financial institutions in the country calls for the need to assess the type of economic graduates Universities in Nigeria produce. In other words, does our Universities produce economists that are skillful in the industry but lacks ethical as well as moral values? To answer these questions there is need to examine the University curriculum so as to know the existence or otherwise of courses that enhance skills and those that enhance values. The objective of this study therefore is to assess the need for Islamic economics curriculum that contains sufficient courses for not only building graduate economic and analytical skills but also the courses that are relevant for ethical development of a graduate. Bayero University Kano, though not an Islamic University per se but is well rooted in the values of Islam historically and in the programmes the University offers to students from various field of Islamic revealed knowledge. The paper being exploratory in nature gathers data from both primary and secondary sources. The primary data was gathered from survey of the respondents that include both academic staff and students of the Department of Economics, B.U.K. The secondary data will be sourced from books, contemporary articles, conference proceedings, reports and curriculum of the department as well as Islamic economics curriculum from relevant Universities in the Muslim world. Based on logistic Regressions, the findings from this study show that there is need for Islamic economics curriculum to improve the ethical and moral stand of the students, especially after graduation. The result paves way for updating economics curriculum for the Bachelor of Science Economics and sheds some lights to other Universities that share the same characteristics with Bayero University Kano. ,

ANALISIS KEBUTUHAN TERHADAP LULUSAN S2 PROGRAM STUDI PENDIDIKAN EKONOMI DI JAKARTA

ABSTRACT This study aimed to determine the needs of graduates S2 Economic Education Program which includes: (1) the number of applicants and the capacity of similar study programs in the last 3 years; (2) the number and the last teacher education; (3) documents graduate profile and learning outcomes (learning outcomes), the curriculum structure and distribution of similar subjects and sejenjang Prodi; (3) the structure of the curriculum and the distribution of subjects similar but different study program levels; (4) tracking studies alumnus that contains a waiting period of graduates get jobs, work field conformity with graduate skills, achievement of the graduate profile that is designed study programs in the workplace and so in the last 3 years; (5) Data job along with the necessary qualifications, and (6) estimate the number of jobs available per year. The results showed that: (1) number of applicants and the capacity program similar studies in the past 3 years has increased (2) Applicants primary education level S2 is teachers (3) Profile graduate courses Economic Education S2 is becoming educators / teacher / lecturer in economics, education personnel are qualified, researchers in the field of education and the economy, education managers, consultants, education and economics. (4) Economic Education at Bachelor (S1) there are 116 universities with 1,434 permanent lecturers and 49 526 active students. (5) Graduate Economics Education courses average S2 are people already working who want to improve or expand the choice of working careers, and (6) Data jobs for graduates S2 economic education is still a lot on the function as an educator at the College / Lecturer with amount per year of about 10 people. Keywords: Needs Analysis, S2 Graduate Study Program of Economic Education.

A imagem do profissional contábil: análise da percepção socialmente construída por estudantes de ciências econômicas

A pesquisa averiguou, com base na Teoria da Representação Social, a imagem socialmente construída do profissional contábil por graduandos em Ciências Econômicas. Foram coletados dados primários por meio de questionário composto por questões abertas, fechadas e fotoquestionário, aplicado a estudantes do último período do curso de graduação em Ciências Econômicas de uma universidade pública. Os dados foram analisados com a aplicação da metodologia do discurso do sujeito coletivo e por técnicas de estatística descritiva. A análise dos dados relevou as características dos profissionais contábeis pela visão dos estudantes de Ciências Econômicas sob diversas perspectivas, como características físicas, profissionais e comportamentais, bem como a percepção sobre as atividades exercidas pelos profissionais em Contabilidade. Os resultados apresentados podem possibilitar ações de órgãos representativos da classe contábil visando valorizar aspectos positivos e mitigar efeitos negativos resultantes de possíveis estereótipos ligados à atividade e ao profissional de Contabilidade.

Study regarding the relevance of the accounting subjects in the economic vocational training of non-accountant specialists

The responsibility for the skills of specialists in the economic field belongs to universities, which, by modernizing the curriculum, must take into account the requirements of the professional environment (employers), where the role of the economic specialist extends beyond narrow knowledge, flexibility and high capacity to address various problems. From this perspective, in order to enhance the role of the academic environment and to develop the professional skills of the graduating economists, it is necessary to correlate the competencies and the requirements about educational outcomes. With regard to the relevance of the accounting subjects in the professional training of non-accountant economic specialists, given the competing interests of universities, students and employers in the field of education, we proposed a debate with the view to design strategies of accounting education in the higher economic education of the Republic of Moldova. The article represents a study based on the documentation of the university curriculum in undergraduate programs. With the view to test and validate the necessity of studying accounting subjects in the professional training of non-accounting economic specialists, a questionnaire was developed and implemented. The general research idea refers to the need to study accounting in economic education and practice, which could have an impact over the competitiveness of the Economics graduate.

The Visual Decoding of the “Wheel of Duality” in Consumer Theory in Modern Microeconomics: An Instructional Tool Usable in Advanced Microeconomics to Turn “Pain” into “Joy”

Duality is the heart of advanced microeconomics. It exists everywhere throughout advanced microeconomics, from the beginning of consumer theory to the end of production theory. The complex, circular relationships among various theoretical microeconomic concepts involved in the setting of duality theory have led it to be called the "wheel of pain" by many graduate economics students . Put simply, the main aim of this paper is to turn this "wheel of pain" into a "wheel of joy". To be more specific, the primary purpose of this paper is to graphically decode the logical, complex relationships among a quartet of dual functions which present preferences as well as a quartet of demand-related functions in a visual manner.

La inserción en el mercado laboral: Un análisis de la situación ocupacional de los egresados de economía en la región de Puno, 2014

This research analyzed the factors that determine the probability of being adequately employed graduates of economics at the National University of Altiplano in 2014. For that proposed we performed descriptive and analytical analysis estimating a probabilistic model such as logit, which concluded that the relevant variables in the model were area where the graduate works (esector), complementary activities (otroempl), income (ingreso) and type of contract (contrato). Also, (the characteristics of graduates from economy on your employment situation) 70% of graduates is adequately employed, and the remaining 30% are unemployed and underemployed; and the length of employment of 1-3 years of the employees properly is 76% and 52% of unemployed graduates underemployed-employment remains in a period of 1 year. Finally, the probability of being employed properly has a direct relationship with esector variables, income and type of contract of 43.8%, 13.06% and 42,255 respectively; and it has a ratio of probability with indirect variable otroempl 23.21%.

The Most Relevant Labour Market Competencies for Employers and their Assessment by Students

Abstract Our paper is aimed at examining what principal business competencies (can) enhance the success and competitiveness of employees according to the employers and we also wish to explore what personality traits have a decisive effect on the decision-making mechanism in taking on new staff. At present employers can make selection from a lot of fresh graduates in economics so for them it is essential to know the competencies by which they are classified and ranked by the employers. However, it is also important to bear in mind from which aspects their opinion meet the employers′ expectations. Based on surveying the employers′ expectations, the required competencies play a vital role in the hiring process and they are mainly acquired in practical trainings. An answer is also sought to the question of how the rank order of competencies have been changed, how their role was appreciated and reevaluated and what skills and abilities are no longer or only to a slight extent necessary for success in the labour market vs. the ones that were not required previously but have become indispensable these days. One of our further objectives was to create and test a competency structure tailored to the current Hungarian labour market situation and specialities on the basis of the professional literature.

Graduate Economics Teaching of Core Microeconomics: Diversity, Knowledge Clusters, Job Placement

We study what is taught in core microeconomics courses at top US econ doctoral programs. We build a detailed concept map containing more than 1300 concepts, fitting under more than 100 broader topics. We find evidence of substantial diversity. Most programs cover less than 50% of the universe of concepts covered over all programs. And most pairs of programs share less than 50% overlap in concept coverage. We use a cluster algorithm and find that the programs cluster into two main clusters that are intuitive and support the idea of schools of thought. We also study job placement flows from the programs to the other programs. Our empirical results indicate that a job candidate who places at one of the other programs is more likely to place at a program that is conceptually close to his own program. This results even when we include controls for program rankings and geographic proximity.

The effect of university attended on graduates’ labour market prospects: A field study of Great Britain

Utilising data for comparable B.Sc. graduates in economics who have studied in different universities that had set the same entry standards, we compare job seekers’ employment prospects when they search by themselves for jobs by submitting CVs to the same firms. The outcomes suggest that graduates who studied in universities that are ranked in better positions, based on the UK league tables, gain more invitations to interviews (access to vacancies) and higher entry-level annual salaries than those who studied in universities that are ranked in lower positions. To clarify the assigned pattern, we utilised further qualitative indicators, and we estimated that both membership of a scholarly group of universities and universities’ research intensity can positively affect their graduates’ invitations to interviews and entry-level annual salaries. Interestingly, by assessing the influence of degree grades, the study suggested also that applicants’ degree grades can moderate the relation between university attended and employment prospects.

The Irving Fisher Article Award for Economics Graduate Students

The Irving Fisher Article Award for Economics Graduate Students

Educación superior y competencias para el empleo. El punto de vista de los empresarios

La relevancia del conocimiento como input del proceso productivo ha aumentado la complejidad de la contratación en el mercado de trabajo cualificado. Como consecuencia de ello, se ha generado un proceso de reflexión sobre la adecuación de la acreditación universitaria a las necesidades del mercado de trabajo. Académicos, gerentes y expertos en el mercado de trabajadores altamente cualificados han tenido parte en esta reflexión durante mucho tiempo. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo la identificación de las competencias profesionales con mayor relevancia en la empleabilidad de los graduados en Economía y Empresa. El análisis se basa en una investigación cualitativa que toma como fuentes de información las opiniones de los empleadores. La información para el estudio ha sido obtenida mediante entrevistas en profundidad y la realización de un grupo de discusión. En este proceso han participado empresarios, responsables del servicio de prácticas de la Universidad de Barcelona, expertos y responsables de empresa de colocación, representantes de organizaciones empresariales y profesores universitarios. La atención se centra en la percepción que los entrevistados tienen del requerimiento de conocimientos, habilidades y actitudes, en el grado en que los desarrollan y en los cambios que se necesitarían para lograr una mejor correspondencia entre las competencias adquiridas por los graduados y las requeridas por el mercado de trabajo. A partir de la clasificación de las competencias profesionales (proyecto Tuning), el estudio pone de relieve la importancia otorgada por los empleadores a de las competencias genéricas. No obstante, se observan diferencias valorativas según la tipología de empresas. Asimismo, se evidencian déficits en algunos aspectos relevantes, como la formación práctica y la capacidad de iniciativa, de análisis o de organización. Por último, de las opiniones recogidas también se constata la necesidad de aproximar la universidad al sistema productivo, al menos en el campo económico-empresarial.

The Effect of University Attended on Graduates' Labour Market Prospects: A Field Study of Great Britain

Utilizing data for comparable BSc graduates in economics who have studied in different universities that had set the same entry standards, we compare job seekers' employment prospects when they search by themselves for jobs by submitting CVs to the same firms. The outcomes suggest that graduates who studied in universities that are ranked in better positions, based on the UK league tables, gain more invitations to interviews (access to vacancies) and higher entry-level annual salaries than those who studied in universities that are ranked in lower positions. To clarify the assigned pattern, we utilized further qualitative indicators, and we estimated that both membership of a scholarly group of universities and universities' research intensity can positively affect their graduates' invitations to interviews and entry-level annual salaries. Interestingly, by assessing the influence of degree grades, the study suggested also that applicants' degree grades can moderate the relation between university attended and employment prospects.

Economics Graduate Student the Irving Fisher Article Award

Economics Graduate Student the Irving Fisher Article Award

Expectations of Students in the Educational Administration, Supervision, Planning and Economics Master’s Program without Thesis and Their Opinions Regarding the Satisfaction of Their Expectations

In this study, the expectations and ideas of the students of the Educational Administration, Supervision, Planning and Economics Graduate Program without Thesis are determined. The study group of the research consists of 34 educators who completed the course section of the Program in the 2013-2014 academic year. In order to get data, two open-ended questions were asked: What were your expectations before applying to the program? What are your ideas about the fulfillment of your expectations after completing the course section of the program? The data was analyzed using a qualitative technique. The results indicate that the students of the program have various expectations, which are categorized as organizational expectations and individual expectations. Results show that administrators and teachers have both common and different expectations. The individual expectations of both administrators and teachers are fulfilled. On the other hand, some of their organizational expectations are not fulfilled.

Miao, Jianjun: Economic dynamics in discrete time

The book under consideration is a graduate level macro text, with a certain emphasis on the mathematical methods of modern macroeconomic theory. The author, Jianjun Miao, is a well-known researcher in macro theory and the text, as he writes at the beginning of the book, developed from his lecture notes for a course on economic dynamics. The book is structured into four parts, where the first two are focussed on mathematical methods, while the last two are oriented towards economic content, covering large parts of a typical first-year macroeconomic graduate level course. I will first describe the content of the chapters in detail and then class the book in the graduate macro textbook literature. Before I start aword concerning themathematical prerequisites: although the author claims in the preface that the book is self-contained in the sense that nothing “beyond the undergraduate analysis, linear algebra and probability theory” is required (everything beyond this is contained in a shortmathematical appendix),my experiencewould suggest that is highly unlikely (I am even tempted to say impossible) that just from reading the definitions in the appendix a student understands concepts like a topological vector space or the weak* topology. Thus, for all full understanding of the mathematical concepts employed in parts of the book, a, for the typical standards of graduate economics students, strong preparation in mathematics is necessary. In particular, all probabilistic aspects are treated in a measure theoretic framework, so that at least some knowledge and mathematical maturity in basic measure theory is in my view strongly recommended. However, many parts of later, more content oriented chapters, can be read with less mathematical knowledge.

Upaya pengembangan usaha mandiri di kalangan pengangguran terdidik di Jawa Timur

The report study intends to examined several obstacles faced by the graduates of the Faculty of Economics and Business in developing their entrepreneurship, mapping their networking, and formulating contextual intervention program in order to accelerate effort to handle unemployment problem. Data were collected by in-depth interview. After undergo editing and classification processes, data were analyzed and interpreted. The study shows that, even the economic graduates are those who have graduated from a well-known university with GPA were at least of 3.00, they generally do not have the ability and ambision to develop independent business or entrepreneurship. Various theories and experiences which were given during the study in college are generally considered to be less supportive in entrepreneurship development. In many cases, the graduates of the Faculty of Economics and Business prefer to work for someone else. One of the constraint that often encountered by the graduates of Faculty of Economics and Business were the lack of capital and excessive competitor in the field. There was an urgency to improve curriculum and study activity to provide a better media for student to learn entrepenuership.