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Soon, Jan-Jan; Lim, Hock-Eam; Ismail, Russayani – Journal of Education and Work, 2021
The paper compares the worth of public and private university education. We develop a Public-Private University Worth parity index and provide empirical estimations to lend rigour in testing our main hypothesis that the type of university education does not matter in determining salaries and skills' value-added. Using data from a recent…
Descriptors: Salaries, Salary Wage Differentials, Value Added Models, Outcomes of Education
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Soon, Jan-Jan; Lee, Angela Siew-Hoong; Lim, Hock-Eam; Idris, Izian; Eng, William Yong-Keong – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
This paper uses a 2016/2017 sample of 1107 freshly minted university graduates from a public and a private university in Malaysia. Against a backdrop of an institutional setting very much different from that of western countries' and issues of high living costs and graduate unemployment, we analyse how academic performance affects graduates'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Correlation, College Graduates, Employment Potential
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Azman, Norzaini; Che Omar, Ibrahim; Yunus, Aida Suraya Md; Zain, Ahmad Nurulazam Md – Oxford Review of Education, 2016
The expansion and transformation of Malaysian universities have generated major changes in the nature of academic employment and the structure of academic promotion in higher education institutions. These changes have considerable implications, in particular for the policy and practice of academic promotion in the public universities. We argue…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Public Colleges, College Faculty