Happiness and unemployment: the case of Malaysian graduates / Hock-Eam Lim

The objective of this paper is to study the determinants of graduates' happiness during their transition from university to labour market, with the focus on the effect of their employment status. Results of descriptive statistics reveal that there is a decreasing trend of happiness over the dur...

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Main Author: Lim, Hock-Eam (Author)
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Published: 2008.
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