Do economic recession and gender influence the likelihood of entry job in IT for IT graduates?

SIGMIS-CPR 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Conference on Computers and People Research

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 15-20

  Ge, Chunmian ^a   Huang, Ke Wei ^a   Kankanhalli, Atreyi ^a   Sha, Xiqing ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Economic recession; Entry job in IT; Gender difference; IT graduate

Indexed keywords

DEPENDENT VARIABLES; DEVELOPED ECONOMIES; ECONOMIC RECESSION; ENTRY JOB IN IT; GENDER DIFFERENCES; INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS; IT GRADUATE; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS;

RESEARCH; SOCIAL SCIENCES; STUDENTS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84890748121     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2487294.2487299     Document Type: Conference Paper

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