Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/67299 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6848
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Can having more education than a job requires reduce one's chances of being offered the job? We study this question in a sample of applications to jobs that are posted on an urban Chinese website. We find that being overqualified in this way does not reduce the success rates of university-educated jobseekers applying to college-level jobs, but that it does hurt college-educated workers' chances when applying to jobs requiring technical school, which involves three fewer years of education than college. Our results highlight a difficult situation faced by the recent large cohort of college-educated Chinese workers: They seem to fare poorly in the competition for jobs, both when pitted against more-educated university graduates, and when pitted against less-educated technical school graduates.
Subjects: 
overqualification
job search
internet
China
JEL: 
J64
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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