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Higher education as a portfolio investment: students’ choices about studying, term time employment, leisure, and loans

Pemberton, J., Jewell, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4413-6618, Faggian, A. and King, Z. (2013) Higher education as a portfolio investment: students’ choices about studying, term time employment, leisure, and loans. Oxford Economic Papers, 65 (2). pp. 268-292. ISSN 1464-3812

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1093/oep/gps026

Abstract/Summary

Recent UK changes in the number of students entering higher education, and in the nature of financial support, highlight the complexity of students’ choices about human capital investments. Today’s students have to focus not on the relatively narrow issue of how much academic effort to invest, but instead on the more complicated issue of how to invest effort in pursuit of ‘employability skills’, and how to signal such acquisitions in the context of a highly competitive graduate jobs market. We propose a framework aimed specifically at students’ investment decisions, which encompasses corner solutions for both borrowing and employment while studying.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Politics, Economics and International Relations > Economics
Henley Business School > International Business and Strategy
ID Code:28807
Publisher:Oxford University Press

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