Exploring job preferences of business and economics students from Colombia, Ecuador and Spain: a discrete choice experiment

IF 4.6 3区 管理学 Q1 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR
Gabriela Morejón Cabrera, Petr Mariel
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Purpose This study analyses the future job characteristics that are preferred by economics and business administration students in three specific regions of Spain, Colombia and Ecuador, and estimates their willingness to accept each.Design/methodology/approach A discrete choice experiment (DCE) is carried out in these three regions. The econometric approach is based on the Random Parameter Logit model, which accounts for both the observed and unobserved heterogeneity by the use of socio-demographic variables and correlated random parameters.Findings The main conclusions indicate that the most important job characteristic for students in all three countries is the long-term career prospects at the company, while a permanent contract is one of the least important job attributes. Regarding the more specific conclusions related to each country, the Ecuadorian students seem to have a higher preference for training opportunities, given the strong relationship between the level of education and the job category. The Spanish students seem to value their commuting time more highly than the South American students.Originality/value To authors’ best knowledge, this is the first DCE-based study of economics and business administration students’ preferences for future jobs that has been conducted simultaneously in three countries on two different continents. Furthermore, this study presents fresh cross-country data that allow authors to compare student choices between South American and European countries. As a result, by focusing on the DCE approach, this study estimated the monetary amount that students from each country are willing to accept for each of the analysed job characteristics. Thus, this research fills a vacuum in the literature on student job preferences between three Latin speaking countries.
探索来自哥伦比亚、厄瓜多尔和西班牙的商业和经济专业学生的工作偏好:一个离散选择实验
本研究分析了西班牙、哥伦比亚和厄瓜多尔三个特定地区经济学和工商管理专业学生偏好的未来工作特征,并估计了他们接受这些特征的意愿。设计/方法/方法在这三个区域进行了离散选择实验(DCE)。计量经济学方法基于随机参数Logit模型,该模型通过使用社会人口变量和相关随机参数来解释观察到的和未观察到的异质性。主要结论表明,对于这三个国家的学生来说,最重要的工作特征是在公司的长期职业前景,而永久合同是最不重要的工作属性之一。关于与每个国家有关的更具体的结论,厄瓜多尔学生似乎更倾向于培训机会,因为教育水平和工作类别之间有密切的关系。西班牙学生似乎比南美学生更看重通勤时间。据作者所知,这是第一个基于dce的经济学和工商管理学生对未来工作偏好的研究,该研究同时在两个不同大洲的三个国家进行。此外,这项研究提供了新的跨国数据,使作者能够比较南美和欧洲国家学生的选择。因此,通过关注DCE方法,本研究估计了每个国家的学生愿意接受的每个分析工作特征的货币金额。因此,本研究填补了关于三个拉丁语系国家学生工作偏好的文献真空。
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CiteScore
8.40
自引率
11.40%
发文量
80
期刊介绍: ■Employee welfare ■Human aspects during the introduction of technology ■Human resource recruitment, retention and development ■National and international aspects of HR planning ■Objectives of human resource planning and forecasting requirements ■The working environment
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