Jan-Jan Soon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1259549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan-Jan Soon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan-Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Soon |
| SIGNATURE | SOON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern University of Malaysia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0647-8833 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Causal impact of the 2015 European refugee crisis on resident immigrants’ life satisfaction
Purpose By exploiting the exogeneity of the unexpected 2015 European refugee crisis, the paper’s purpose is to analyze the causal impact of the crisis on resident immigrants’ life satisfaction. Due to the ongoing anti-immigrant sentiments, we argue that the refugee crisis and the build-up to it affect how resident immigrants are looked upon in a negative light; this in turn could consequently be reflected in their life satisfaction. We anchor the…
Food expenditure of the poorest deciles: Expected vulnerability and counterintuitive indulgence
Key findings from our estimation models show that although the poorest households are vulnerable to income and food price shocks, our results also reveal an anomaly: given an increase in income and in food price, the poorest households seem to indulge in non-essential food expenditure, which is counterintuitive. Being the poorest typically conjures images of needing more food, not more food choices. We explain our findings within an intertwined t…
Quantile analysis of the aspirational middle class in Malaysia: Spending behaviour emulation or dissociation
Purpose This paper focusses on how the educated and less-educated middle class react differently to income increases, against an intertwined literature backdrop of Engel's law, quality of life, aspirational and conspicuous consumption. The paper seeks to answer two main questions: Is there evidence of the middle class, particularly the educated, trying to emulate the upper class by shifting towards aspirational consumption? Is there any distinct …
Of higher salaries and superior skills: Comparing the worth of public and private university education
The paper compares the worth of public and private university education. We develop a Public–Private University Worth parity index and provide empirical estimations to lend rigour in testing our main hypothesis that the type of university education does not matter in determining salaries and skills’ value-added. Using data from a recent questionnaire survey, our proposed parity index suggests that private university graduates have higher salaries…
Cubicles or corner offices? Effects of academic performance on university graduates’ employment likelihood and salary
This paper uses a 2016/2017 sample of 1107 freshly minted university graduates from a public and a private university in Malaysia. Against a backdrop of an institutional setting very much different from that of western countries’ and issues of high living costs and graduate unemployment, we analyse how academic performance affects graduates’ employment likelihood, salaries, and salary distribution. Using quantile estimations, we find that academi…
From Migrant to Worker: Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia
Michele Ford has two central themes to her most recent book. The first is for migrant workers to be regarded primarily as workers with labour rights rather than as migrants caught between the precarity of their migration status and peripheral position in the employment relations regime. The second theme is for local labour unions in the destination countries to ultimately integrate labour migration regimes with employment relations regimes. The b…
The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age
The Philippines’ export of labour was institutionalised under its government’s labour export policy back in 1972. With a total of US $29.7 billion, the World Bank ranked the Philippines behind India and China in the top three remittance-receiving countries in 2015. For migrants, remittances are often deemed a way of caring for their loved ones, often in material form. But how do the migrants and their families mutually care for each other affecti…
Educated in New Zealand and staying on? A parameter simulation analysis
There is a non-trivial probability of students remaining abroad after completion of studies outside their home countries. Departing from typical literature, this paper incorporates simulations of parameters obtained from a multinomial logit model in revealing why international students studying abroad intend to stay abroad or to return home. Micro-level data are obtained from a sample of 623 full-time international students studying at tertiary l…
Home is Where the Heart Is? Factors Determining International Students' Destination Country upon Completion of Studies Abroad
Using a multinomial logit model on a sample of 623 international students studying in New Zealand universities, this paper examines the factors determining which country the students intend to go to after completing their studies. The determining factors are found to be the initial return intention, family support, length of stay in New Zealand, work experience, and level and discipline of study. Other factors included students' perceptions of th…
Home is Where the Heart Is? Factors Determining International Students' Destination Country upon Completion of Studies Abroad
Using a multinomial logit model on a sample of 623 international students studying in New Zealand universities, this paper examines the factors determining which country the students intend to go to after completing their studies. The determining factors are found to be the initial return intention, family support, length of stay in New Zealand, work experience, and level and discipline of study. Other factors included students' perceptions of th…
The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age
The Philippines’ export of labour was institutionalised under its government’s labour export policy back in 1972. With a total of US $29.7 billion, the World Bank ranked the Philippines behind India and China in the top three remittance-receiving countries in 2015. For migrants, remittances are often deemed a way of caring for their loved ones, often in material form. But how do the migrants and their families mutually care for each other affecti…
Home is Where the Heart Is? Factors Determining International Students' Destination Country upon Completion of Studies Abroad
Using a multinomial logit model on a sample of 623 international students studying in New Zealand universities, this paper examines the factors determining which country the students intend to go to after completing their studies. The determining factors are found to be the initial return intention, family support, length of stay in New Zealand, work experience, and level and discipline of study. Other factors included students' perceptions of th…
Educated in New Zealand and staying on? A parameter simulation analysis
There is a non-trivial probability of students remaining abroad after completion of studies outside their home countries. Departing from typical literature, this paper incorporates simulations of parameters obtained from a multinomial logit model in revealing why international students studying abroad intend to stay abroad or to return home. Micro-level data are obtained from a sample of 623 full-time international students studying at tertiary l…
From Migrant to Worker: Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia
Michele Ford has two central themes to her most recent book. The first is for migrant workers to be regarded primarily as workers with labour rights rather than as migrants caught between the precarity of their migration status and peripheral position in the employment relations regime. The second theme is for local labour unions in the destination countries to ultimately integrate labour migration regimes with employment relations regimes. The b…
The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age
The Philippines’ export of labour was institutionalised under its government’s labour export policy back in 1972. With a total of US $29.7 billion, the World Bank ranked the Philippines behind India and China in the top three remittance-receiving countries in 2015. For migrants, remittances are often deemed a way of caring for their loved ones, often in material form. But how do the migrants and their families mutually care for each other affecti…
Cubicles or corner offices? Effects of academic performance on university graduates’ employment likelihood and salary
This paper uses a 2016/2017 sample of 1107 freshly minted university graduates from a public and a private university in Malaysia. Against a backdrop of an institutional setting very much different from that of western countries’ and issues of high living costs and graduate unemployment, we analyse how academic performance affects graduates’ employment likelihood, salaries, and salary distribution. Using quantile estimations, we find that academi…
Of higher salaries and superior skills: Comparing the worth of public and private university education
The paper compares the worth of public and private university education. We develop a Public–Private University Worth parity index and provide empirical estimations to lend rigour in testing our main hypothesis that the type of university education does not matter in determining salaries and skills’ value-added. Using data from a recent questionnaire survey, our proposed parity index suggests that private university graduates have higher salaries…
Quantile analysis of the aspirational middle class in Malaysia: Spending behaviour emulation or dissociation
Purpose This paper focusses on how the educated and less-educated middle class react differently to income increases, against an intertwined literature backdrop of Engel's law, quality of life, aspirational and conspicuous consumption. The paper seeks to answer two main questions: Is there evidence of the middle class, particularly the educated, trying to emulate the upper class by shifting towards aspirational consumption? Is there any distinct …
Food expenditure of the poorest deciles: Expected vulnerability and counterintuitive indulgence
Key findings from our estimation models show that although the poorest households are vulnerable to income and food price shocks, our results also reveal an anomaly: given an increase in income and in food price, the poorest households seem to indulge in non-essential food expenditure, which is counterintuitive. Being the poorest typically conjures images of needing more food, not more food choices. We explain our findings within an intertwined t…
Causal impact of the 2015 European refugee crisis on resident immigrants’ life satisfaction
Purpose By exploiting the exogeneity of the unexpected 2015 European refugee crisis, the paper’s purpose is to analyze the causal impact of the crisis on resident immigrants’ life satisfaction. Due to the ongoing anti-immigrant sentiments, we argue that the refugee crisis and the build-up to it affect how resident immigrants are looked upon in a negative light; this in turn could consequently be reflected in their life satisfaction. We anchor the…
Economics (9 works) · Demographic economics (7 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Labour economics (4 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)