Theoretical and methodological background on the economic attributes in the choice of university career

Abstract

Economic, political and cultural changes show the choice of career as a latent and unfinished process at the conceptual level, given its important regional and gender edges. With the desire to know and segregate from among the investigations that link economics with career choice, the fundamental variables to describe, compare and then relate against attributes outside the combo, a conceptual mapping was elaborated on classic articles in these tasks. Finding that, the studies bifurcan defined not by the topics considered, but by their paradigmatic or disciplinary genesis. Thus, economists expose varied and elegant metrics, although often overestimated, since in their abstraction, the failure of qualification is reduced to a mere matter of cost-benefit. On the other hand, the works emanating from the vocational orientation, include more elements of analysis in the choice of career, but, often, they are questioned as perceptions economic attributes perfectly objectifiable in their instruments. The conclusions of the studies are disparate according to context, in some cases, the socioeconomic status and the professional labor market are neutral in the choice of career and school performance, while other chapters place them above the attitudes, aptitudes and academic preferences of the baccalaureate.