Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/108429 
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Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Budapest Working Papers on the Labour Market No. BWP - 2006/4
Publisher: 
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Budapest
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the determinants and labour market effects of further higher education studies of graduates, the factors that induce them to switch to other fields (switching decision) and in comparison the determinants of deciding upon “deepening” their knowledge (to proceed with further higher educational studies in the original field of study) and its labour market consequences. Based on data from a follow-up survey of Hungarian Higher Education Graduates the paper demonstrates that graduates who obtained their first diploma in other than their most preferred field specialisation are more likely to participate in further higher education studies and to switch to another field. In addition, this paper finds some evidence that those, who switch fields, lose a part of their human capital in the short run. The results suggest that state intervention in the supply of field specialities in higher education or the inelasticity of these supplies may lead to further higher education studies of graduates and to a wastage of resources.
Subjects: 
demand for schooling
human capital
JEL: 
I22
J24
J44
J62
ISBN: 
9639588768
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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