American Journal of Economics

American Journal of Economics is a peer-reviewed journal that employs economics to analyze issues in business, consumer behavior, and public policy. The Journal is focused on publishing both theoretical and empirical papers in finance and several closely related fields in economics.

Jan Jan Soon

Editorial Board Member of American Journal of Economics

Lecturer, Universiti Utara, Malaysia

Research Areas

Brain drain & Migration Economics

Education

2010Ph.D University of Otago, New Zealand
2005M.Sc Universiti Utara Malaysia
2001M.EcUniversiti Putra Malaysia
1999B.EcUniversiti Utara Malaysia

Experience

2010-presentSenior Lecturer,School of Economics, Finance & Banking College of Business,Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM)
2001-2010Lecturer,Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), Malaysia
2000-2001Lecturer,Ikram College, Malaysia

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums/Journals/Books

[1]  Soon, J. J. (2011 forthcoming). "Home is where the heart is?: Factors determining international students' destination country upon completion of abroad studies", The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
[2]  Soon, J. J. (August 2010). "A change of heart?: A bivariate probit model of international students' change of return intention", International Journal of Business and Economics, 9(2), 115-129.
[3]  Soon, J. J. (2010). "The determinants of students' return intentions: A partial proportional odds model", The Journal of Choice Modelling, 3(2), 89-112.
[4]  Soon, J. J. (2010). When do students intend to return? Determinants of students' return intentions using a multinomial logit model. International Journal of Business and Society, 11(1), 17-32.
[5]  Soon, J. J. (2010). "Go East, young man!... and stay East?", EcoNZ@Otago Magazine, Issue 25, 1-4.
[6]  Soon, J. J. (October 2009). A bivariate probit model of international students' return intention. The Empirical Economics Letters, 8(10), ISSN 1681 8997.
[7]  Soon, J. J., Hassan, A. A. G. & Lim, H. E. (2009). The effectiveness of location incentive: An analytical study of manufacturing SMEs in the Kedah state. International Journal of Management Studies, 16(2), 123-153.
[8]  Soon, J. J. (June 2009). When do students intend to return? Determinants of students' return intentions using a multinomial logit model. No. 0906, Economics Discussion Papers 2008 Series, Department of Economics, University of Otago. ISSN 1178-2293 (Online). Available at http://www.business.otago.ac.nz/econ/research/discussionpapers/DP_0906.pdf.
[9]  Soon, J. J. (July 2008). The determinants of international students' return intention. No. 0806, Economics Discussion Papers 2008 Series, Department of Economics, University of Otago. ISSN 0111-1760 (Print), ISSN 1178-2293 (Online). Available at http://www.business.otago.ac.nz/econ/research/discussionpapers/DP_0806.pdf.
[10]  Lim, H.E. & Soon, J. J. (2006). Job selection criteria and job sector preference of economics students: an analysis of ordered logit model. International Journal of Business and Society, 7(1), p.53-69.
[11]  Choo, S.Y., Soon, J. J. & Lim, H.E. (2005). The financial difficulty of credit card usage: An analysis of Tobit model. Working Paper, Faculty of Economics, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok.
[12]  Soon, J. J., Choo, S.Y. & Lim, H.E (2005). The pattern of credit card usage in Malaysia: An exploratory study. Working Paper, Faculty of Economics, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok.
[13]  Lim, H.E., Choo, S.Y. & Soon, J. J. (2005). The happiness, income, age, marital status and financial difficulties: Some evidence from Malaysia. Working Paper, Faculty of Economics, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok.
[14]  Choo, S. Y., Soon, J. J. & Lim, H. E. (2005). Demographic factors influencing housing tenure choice: An analysis of two townships in Kedah. Book chapter in Asan Ali Golam Hassan, Mohd Faisol Md Salleh & Maria Abdul Rahman (Eds.), Kedah: Towards a Developed State. Sintok: Penerbit UUM.
[15]  Choo, S.Y., Soon, J.J & Lim, H.E. (2003). A multinomial logit model of housing tenure choice: The impact of demographic and non-demographic variables. Working Paper, Faculty of Economics, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok.
[16]  Choo, S.Y., Soon, J.J & Lim, H.E. (2003). The housing tenure choice of Changloon-Sintok: Nonlinear impact of age and other selected demographic variables. Working Paper, Faculty of Economics, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok.
[17]  Soon, J.J. (2002). Linkages and Imports of Malaysia: An Input-Output Approach. ANALISIS Jurnal, Vol. 9, No. 1 & 2, pp. 135-155.
[18]  Lim, H.E. & Soon, J.J. (2005). Job selection criteria of economics student: The case of Universiti Utara Malaysia. International Conference in Economics and Finance (ICEF) 2005 Proceedings, Labuan International Campus UMS, pp. 463-473 (in CD-ROM format).
[19]  Lim, H.E., Choo, S.Y. & Soon, J.J. (2005). The Malaysian's happiness and its determinants: An exploratory study. International Conference on Quantitative Sciences and Its Applications (ICOQSIA) 2005 Proceedings, (in CD-ROM format).
[20]  Soon, J.J. & Md. Salleh, F. (2004). Technical efficiency in resource-based industries: A stochastic frontier approach. National Seminar on Decision Science 2004 Proceedings, pp. 343-350.
[21]  Choo, S.Y., Soon, J.J & Lim, H.E. (2003). A multinomial logit model of housing tenure choice: The impact of demographic and non-demographic variables. Asia-Pacific Network for Housing Research (APNHR) Conference 2004 Proceedings, pp. 1-18.
[22]  Choo, S.Y., Soon J.J., & Lim, H.E. (2003). Factor that influence housing choice: A multinomial logit analysis of Changloon-Sintok. Kedah Maju 2010 Seminar Proceedings, Faculty of Economics, UUM, pp. 415-430.