A Study of Over-education of College Recent Graduates in Taiwan
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Yang, Chia-Ju
Abstract
The main purpose of this thesis is to analyze the relationship between over-education and wage in higher education of Taiwan. We focus on the college graduates who graduated from college within one year in Taiwan. Most previous over-education studies concentrate on issues of incidence of over-education and its effect on wage. The over-education has been determined by several different measures. This article adopts the income ratio measure proposed by Jensen. It is a degree index of over-education that measures the gap between the potential and actual wage.
Empirical findings from our analysis conclude: (1) polytechnic college graduates perform low in wage where their among four school types, degree of over-education tends to be higher than university graduates. (2) The over-education has negative impact on wage, and such effect varies by school type. However, such effect is not significant in male sample. (3) Wage differs by gender. However, it doesn’t make difference between male and female by Jensen over-education index. (4) The learning at school variables will significantly affect wage and the degree of over-education. College graduates in sciences tend to have the highest wage among different fields of graduates, however they also suffer the most serious degree of over-education.
Subjects
over-education
wage
higher education
wage frontier model
wage function
Type
thesis
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