Overeducation at the Start of the Career: Stepping Stone or Trap?
Overeducation at the Start of the Career: Stepping Stone or Trap?
复制标题
DOI：
10.1016/j.labeco.2013.04.013
复制
发表时间：
2012-05
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
S. Baert;Bart Cockx;Dieter Verhaest
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
S. Baert;Bart Cockx;Dieter Verhaest
这项研究调查了接受低于其教育水平的工作的年轻失业毕业生是否加速或延迟向与其教育水平相匹配的工作的过渡。我们采用事件的时机的方法，以确定这种动态的治疗效果，每月日历数据从佛兰芒（比利时）青年谁开始寻找工作后离开正规教育的代表性样本。我们发现，重复教育是一个陷阱。通过接受一个受过高等教育的工作，而不是只接受适当的工作匹配，每月向适当就业的过渡率下降了51- 98%，这取决于失业时间的长短。这些研究结果挑战了职业流动性理论，并意味着，政策，产生快速过渡到就业的短期利益必须权衡对长期成本的工作匹配不足。
This study investigates whether young unemployed graduates who accept a job below their level of education accelerate or delay the transition into a job that matches their level of education. We adopt the Timing of Events approach to identify this dynamic treatment effect using monthly calendar data from a representative sample of Flemish (Belgian) youth who started searching for a job right after leaving formal education. We find that overeducation is a trap. By accepting a job for which one is overeducated rather than only accepting adequate job matches, monthly transition rates into adequate employment fall by 51–98%, depending on the elapsed unemployment duration. These findings challenge the career mobility thesis and imply that the short-term benefits of policies that generate quick transitions into employment must be traded-off against the long-term costs of an inadequate job match.