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The Signaling Paradox: Revisiting the Impacts of Overeducation in the Chinese Labor Market
Education SciencesWith the widespread popularization of higher education, the increased supply of knowledge laborers has heightened the risk of overeducation, posing a significant threat to employment quality.
Bingbing Zhang +3 more
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Choosing a Field of Education: Signaling, Mismatch, and Equilibrium Shifting
Ekonomista, 2022 In this paper the author reviews a well-known model of job market signaling through education, extending it to a choice of a field of study. In the theoretical part, she extends the classic model, by analyzing a game of education choice with continuum ...
Joanna Franaszek
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Land transfer distortion and overeducation during China’s transition period
Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsLand transfer distortion remains a critical institutional factor in China’s economic landscape, but its impact on labor market efficiency, particularly overeducation, is under-explored.
Cuini Li +3 more
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Diplomados universitários e sobre-educação
Sociologia: Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2017 The overeducation of university graduates is at present a relevant issue in social sciences. Determinants and consequences of that situation, both in personal and social terms, are extensively analyzed in reference literature.
Carlos Manuel Gonçalves
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Japanese Journal of Sociology, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 186-205, March 2025.Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyze the sociodemographic compositions and labor market entry of low‐educated youth in Japan. The paper specifically focuses on whether vocational education provides a safety net for labor market insecurities during an era of educational expansion.
Katsunori Ogawa
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, 1993 According to manpower requirements economists, overeducation occurs when an individual has more schooling than is required by their job. Studies have found that men (but not women) who exceed the schooling norm for their job by 4 or more years are ...
Bishop, John H.
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Demographic Dynamics and International Trade: Stylized Facts and Theoretical Insights
Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Demographic change within a country has economic repercussions for other countries through international transactions. Ongoing shifts in population size and age structure across countries have important implications for international trade, operating through changes in market size, consumption preferences, and labor supply.
Kumuthini Sivathas
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Approaches to Skills Mismatch in the Labour Market: A Literature Review
Papers, 2011 Skills mismatch in the labour market describes the fact that levels or types of skills of individuals are inadequate in view of particular job requirements. There exists no accepted unified theory of skills mismatch.
Guillem Sala Lorda
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Overeducation and unemployment spells’ duration
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2010 AbstractThis work proposes an investigation of educational mismatch focusing on the study of individuals’ unemployment spells. We present evidence for Italy, showing that overeducation is basically an occurrence that follows long periods of unemployment and it is strictly related to individuals’ innate ability. We build up a matching model coupled with
ORDINE, Patrizia, ROSE, Giuseppe
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Far From Routine: Employers' Recruitment and Control Strategies in Two Low Wage Sectors
Human Resource Management Journal, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 181-191, April 2026.ABSTRACT Contrary to HRM's prevailing view that low wage work is routine and not requiring specific HR strategies, this study reveals how employers within low wage sectors pursue active and diverse strategies to segment the labour force and shape the work package.
Eva Herman, Jill Rubery, Gail Hebson
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