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5月6日讲座-英国阿伯丁大学商学院经济系Harminder Battu教授
发布时间：2013-04-24
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Overskilling and Overeducation in the Labour Market
主讲人：Dr Harminder Battu
Dr Harminder Battu is a Reader in Economics at the Universty of Aberdeen in the UK. His research interests are within the economics of educaton, regional mobility and housing markets and the economics of ethnic identity and segregregation. He has widely published in international journals including the Economic Journal, Labour Economics, the Journal of Population Economics and the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.
时 间：5月6日下午2:30
地 点：后主楼1610
Abstract
This research examines overeducation and overskilling in a middle income country, namely Malaysia. Using a workplace survey from Malaysia (the 2007 Productivity Investment Climate Survey), this paper examines the incidence, determinants and consequences of overskilling in the Malaysian manufacturing sector. In particular, we examine the following. First, we document the extent of educational and skills mismatch for working individuals. Second, we investigate the determinants of overskilling not only from an individual’s perspective but also from the workplace perspective and investigate the extent to which overskilling is influenced by workplace hiring practices, firm size, capital intensity and the presence of competitors. Above all, we try to ascertain whether being overeducated results in being overskilled. Third, we explore the effects of overskilling on earnings at the worker and workplace level. Fourth, we examine the effect of overskilling on a firm’s performance in terms of absenteeism, quit rates, productivity, total output and sales. The incidence of overskilling is found to be low relative to other countries. The degree of overskilling is also found to be lower among the more highly educated but higher among those who are overeducated. Workplace characteristics such as hiring practices, gender composition of the workforce, capital intensity, and degree of competition, all seem to have an impact on the probability of overskilling. Overskilling is also found to reduce an individual’s earnings and has a negative impact upon firm performance.
Keywords: overskilling, overeducation, earnings, Malaysia
JEL Classifications: J24, J31