Job search and over-education: Evidence from China’s labour market for postgraduates
This article investigates the relationship between the number of informational channels and overeducation in the outcome of job search, using the survey data of postgraduates in China. The empirical results show: (1) the more the informational channels of job search are used, the lower the probabil...
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This article investigates the relationship between the number of informational channels and overeducation in the outcome of job search, using the survey data of postgraduates in China. The empirical results show: (1) the more the informational channels of job search are used, the lower the probability and the less the intensity of over-education will be; (2) graduates from prestigious “985” universities have lower probability and less intensity of over-education than those of their counterparts from “none-985” universities. Based on the findings above, we argue that helping graduates to get more job information and improving the quality of universities will lighten the problem of the over-education under the situation of great higher education expansion.
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| spelling | doaj.art-dfea06113f5a495381931139b519d2552024-03-07T11:18:56ZengUniversity of the Free StatePerspectives in Education0258-22362519-593X2010-06-01282Job search and over-education: Evidence from China’s labour market for postgraduatesLi Fengliang0Zhao Yandong1Tian Yongpo2Tsinghua University, Beijing, ChinaChinese Acadamy of Science and Technology for Development, Beijing, ChinaChinese Acadamy of Personnel Science, Beijing, China This article investigates the relationship between the number of informational channels and overeducation in the outcome of job search, using the survey data of postgraduates in China. The empirical results show: (1) the more the informational channels of job search are used, the lower the probability and the less the intensity of over-education will be; (2) graduates from prestigious “985” universities have lower probability and less intensity of over-education than those of their counterparts from “none-985” universities. Based on the findings above, we argue that helping graduates to get more job information and improving the quality of universities will lighten the problem of the over-education under the situation of great higher education expansion. https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/pie/article/view/25Job searchOver-educationInformational channelInformation assymmetryJEL:I20J21 |
| spellingShingle | Li Fengliang Zhao Yandong Tian Yongpo Job search and over-education: Evidence from China’s labour market for postgraduates Perspectives in Education Job search Over-education Informational channel Information assymmetry JEL:I20 J21 |
| title | Job search and over-education: Evidence from China’s labour market for postgraduates |
| title_full | Job search and over-education: Evidence from China’s labour market for postgraduates |
| title_fullStr | Job search and over-education: Evidence from China’s labour market for postgraduates |
| title_full_unstemmed | Job search and over-education: Evidence from China’s labour market for postgraduates |
| title_short | Job search and over-education: Evidence from China’s labour market for postgraduates |
| title_sort | job search and over education evidence from china s labour market for postgraduates |
| topic | Job search Over-education Informational channel Information assymmetry JEL:I20 J21 |
| url | https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/pie/article/view/25 |
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