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

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  • Jim Pemberton
  • Sarah Jewell
  • Alessandra Faggian
  • Zella King

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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. Copyright 2013 Oxford University Press 2012 All rights reserved, Oxford University Press.

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  • Jim Pemberton & Sarah Jewell & Alessandra Faggian & Zella King, 2013. "Higher education as a portfolio investment: students' choices about studying, term time employment, leisure, and loans," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 65(2), pages 268-292, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:oxecpp:v:65:y:2013:i:2:p:268-292
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    1. Diana M. Yanbarisova, 2014. "Combining University Studies With Work: Influence On Academic Achievement," HSE Working papers WP BRP 21/EDU/2014, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
    2. Ouyang Meichang & Zhu Wenzhong & Liu Dan, 2017. "Study of Motives of Chinese Business English Development Based on the Theory of Human Capital," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 10(1), pages 1-18, January.

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