The effects of overeducation and of the gap between knowledge and wages and the search for a job of professional

In this article the authors analyze the presence of overeducation and how knowledge is totally out of phase in the labor market of graduate students of a Mexican public university. Starting from the data gathered from surveys to graduate students and their respective employers the authors construct...

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Autores: Burgos Flores, Benjamín, López Montes, Karla
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Perfiles Educativos
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/27939
Acceso en línea:https://perfileseducativos.unam.mx/iisue_pe/index.php/perfiles/article/view/27939
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Higher education
Professionals
Labor market
Overeducation
Knowledge gap
Educación superior
Profesionistas
Mercado de trabajo
Sobreeducación
Desfase de conocimiento
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Sumario:In this article the authors analyze the presence of overeducation and how knowledge is totally out of phase in the labor market of graduate students of a Mexican public university. Starting from the data gathered from surveys to graduate students and their respective employers the authors construct variables in order to carry out Mincer ordinary regressions that help to measure the effects of both phenomena on wages and logistic binary regressions to calculate their impact on the search for an alternative job. The authors find evidence that allow them to assert that professionals who are in a situation of educational and knowledge gap have lower wages and therefore tend more to search for alternative jobs.