Education in East Asian societies: Postwar expansion and the evolution of inequality

E Hannum, H Ishida, H Park… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews research on the coevolution of educational expansion and educational
inequality within China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan in the post–World War II period …

[BOK][B] Building soft skills for employability: Challenges and practices in Vietnam

TLH Nghia - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
This book is among the first of its kind to comprehensively examine the implementation of
soft skills in universities in the develo** country, Vietnam. The context is unique as the …

Higher education and corporate innovation

D Kong, B Zhang, J Zhang - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the impact of higher education on corporate innovation. To establish
causality, we exploit a policy-induced exogenous shock in the supply of Chinese college …

Am I gonna get a job? Graduating students' psychological capital, co** styles, and employment anxiety

MA Belle, CO Antwi, SY Ntim… - Journal of Career …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Thoughts about life after school can be frightening for college students. The uncertainty
about employment expectancies can engender crippling anxiety, especially in a time of a …

Human capital, technology adoption and firm performance: Impacts of China's higher education expansion in the late 1990s

Y Che, L Zhang - The Economic Journal, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We exploit a policy‐induced exogenous surge in China's college‐educated workforce that
started in 2003 to identify the impact of human capital on productivity. Using a difference‐in …

Human capital and entrepreneurship

N Qin, D Kong - Journal of Human Capital, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
This study investigates the causal effect of human capital on entrepreneurship. We use
China's higher-education expansion in 1999 as an exogenous shock to conduct difference …

[HTML][HTML] Returns to education in China: Evidence from the great higher education expansion

B Huang, M Tani, Y Wei, Y Zhu - China Economic Review, 2022 - Elsevier
China experienced a near 5-fold increase in annual Higher Education (HE) enrolment in the
decade starting in 1999. Using the China Household Finance Survey, we show that the …

Global higher education learning outcomes and financial trends: Comparative and innovative approaches

WJ Jacob, V Gokbel - International Journal of Educational Development, 2018 - Elsevier
The cost of higher education continues to escalate at an alarming rate. Public and private
funding sources from around the world are increasingly under pressure to reduce …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring the provincial supply of higher education institutions in China

MT Borsi, OMV Mendoza, F Comim - China Economic Review, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper proposes and estimates three novel higher education indices for 31 Chinese
provinces: i) the Chinese Higher Education Density Index (CHEDI) to analyze the evolution …

Barriers to the labour market for unemployed graduates in South Africa

L Graham, L Williams, C Chisoro - Journal of Education and Work, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Graduate unemployment has increasingly been the topic of research interest as it grows in
many countries. In many such contexts, the massification of higher education and the global …