This paper presents employers' opinions concerning competencies they expect of graduates of Faculties of Economics with … studies are important to employers, the respondents valued soft competencies more. They found foreign languages to be the most … curricula, employers indicated that general courses, the foundations of a university education, remain important as a basis to …

coherence between the academic curriculum and the needs of employers, as basis for the graduates’ comprehensive training in …One of the current concerns of the academic environment in economics is highlighting the importance of competences that … higher education graduates should display when they step across the threshold of the real economy. To this effect, the …

This paper deals with the effects of education-job (mis)match on the earnings of higher education graduates in the … contextual variables: the share of graduates in the population and the unemployment rate of graduates. The paper is based on … assumptions derived from assignment theory. The authors use data of graduates' self-evaluation collected in national and …

We investigate the choice of quality, or academic content, in higher education in a two-sector model. Individuals are … differentiated according to their cost of acquiring human capital. A higher academic quality increases productivity upon training … quality is tailored to the individual need, and a uniform quality system being politically determined. The former yields a …

the influence of attributes like awareness, acceptance, and quality on brand image of universities, therefore, it is … attributes on brand image. The components used in the study are awareness, acceptance, prestige, incentives and quality. The … result also shows that the image of the university has four key constructing factors which are quality, prestige, financial …

expansion, yet their quality varies greatly within and among countries. In this paper we explore the relationship between … programs' practices and inputs (quality determinants) and student academic and labor market outcomes. We design and conduct a … novel survey to collect program-level information on quality determinants and average outcomes for Brazil, Colombia …

contributions are strongly correlated with program outcomes but not with other commonly used quality measures. Programs contribute …

Quality in education is a recurring theme in this society where the training of competent professionals is an essential …

Self-employed workers can be own-account workers who control their own work or employers who not only are their own … employers, to enjoy more independence in determining their work content (type of work) and more flexibility in shaping their …. Furthermore, we suspect that employers (who can delegate work to their employees and can help them to develop and grow) enjoy even …