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Friends, Family but no Fools: Occupation choice of young individuals
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| theme |
Theme 2: The role of technology in growth and development |
| time frame |
2006-2010 |
| researcher(s) |
Robin Cowan
Ezequiel Tacsir
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| description |
Economic development is a complex process of structural change characterized by an
intricate economic, cultural, institutional and technological co-evolution. This process
requires changes in the nature of capital, both physical and human, that are
accumulated. At the same time, values, institutions, sectors, physical and human capital
are all renewed and changed continually as the process takes place.
During the process of development, on one side, there is a permanent interaction and
potential tension between the changes observed in the economic realm and those
observed in what we could label as institutional and cultural or socially determined
spheres. These spheres can both act as propellers or inhibiting forces of the process of
development. One important manifestation of this potential tension can be found in the
process of occupation choice and replacement of new occupations. As the production
structure becomes more diversified, we would expect to observe a change in the type of
occupations and professions that the individuals choose to follow. However, this is not
always the case. In this research, we will focus on the choice of university career and its
implications to understand the process of development.
Specifically throughout the thesis we will focus on a set of factors that we believe
influence the choice of university careers: a) institutional factors operating at the level of
the higher education institutions and government policies; b) role of family background
and individual education experiences; c) perceptions about careers and their rewards
and; d) sources and means of collecting information by young individuals. Our particular
interest will be put in the case of Argentina, a middle-income country that presents high
levels of participation at the higher education level but low (and seemingly decreasing)
shares of enrollments and graduation in science and technology (STEM) related
disciplines (see more below). |
| deliverables |
(i) Scientific journal article on the analytical modelling of the influence of approbation and its
interplay with economic rewards.
(ii) Scientific Journal article on the growth implications of the existence of approbation granting
rules influencing invetment choices.
(iii) Scientific journal article relating the modelling and simulations with the empirical evidence.
(iv) Ph.D. Thesis |
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