La théorie économique des choix de carrière: une interprétation et une vérification empirique

Clément Lemelin and Jean-Claude Otis
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Clément Lemelin: Université du Québec à Montréal
Jean-Claude Otis: Société Métreq

L'Actualité Economique, 1978, vol. 54, issue 3, 337-354

Abstract: In their choice of a field of study, students are assumed by the "neoclassical" theory to be rational, well informed, flexible, and to react to changes in monetary variables. Data from a survey are used to show that students are economic men and women only in a weak sense: 1) they appear to be more interested in job availabilities and other job characteristics than in earnings associated with a particular field of study; 2) if their information can be said to be good with respect to forgone earnings and starting earnings of their chosen occupation such is not the case with respect to future earnings; 3) however, their expected rates of return on their studies seem plausible and show all the usual properties of rates of return derived from more conventional computations.

Date: 1978
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