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Carly D. Robinson; Katharine Meyer; Chasity Bailey-Fakhoury; Amirpasha Zandieh; Susanna Loeb – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
College students make job decisions without complete information. As a result, they may rely on misleading heuristics ("interesting jobs pay badly") and pursue options misaligned with their goals. We test whether highlighting job characteristics changes decision making. We find increasing the salience of a job's monetary benefits…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Career Choice, Tutoring, Compensation (Remuneration)
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Celikoz, Nadir – Education, 2010
The purpose of this study is to investigate some personal and familial factors that affect overall academic motivation levels of candidate preschool teachers. The study group of this research consists of 285 students attending the child development and preschool education department at Selcuk University Faculty of Vocational Education in the…
Descriptors: Siblings, Preschool Education, Incentives, Job Search Methods
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Chen, Chengwen; Hu, Guiying – Frontiers of Education in China, 2008
The concept of job-hunting is an important factor affecting university students' employment. This empirical study shows that while hunting for a job, graduates witness negative correlation between their expectation of the nature of work and the demand for occupational types and the accessibility to a post and monthly income; positive correlation…
Descriptors: Expectation, Student Attitudes, Correlation, Employment Opportunities