Sector-Based Analysis of the Education-Occupation Mismatch in the Turkish Labor Market

Mercan, Murat Anil; Citci, Sadettin Haluk; Babacan, Mehmet; Karakaş, Mesut

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“…Studies conducted by TURKSTAT have shown that the employment rates and average wages of VET graduates have been higher than those of graduates from academic high schools for many years (Özer, 2020b;. Although this situation provides a general employment advantage to VET graduates, studies on the employment areas of graduates indicate a critical skill mismatch problem (Bartlett, 2013;Ege, 2020;Erikli, 2015;Filiztekin, 2011;Galasi, 2008;MEB, 2018;Mercan et al, 2015;Suna et al, 2020a). Therefore, although VET graduates in Turkey have a significant advantage in terms of employability, there are great discrepancies between the fields of employment and the fields of education.…”

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“…Erikli (2015) investigated the reasons for the high levels of skill mismatch in the northern city of Sinop, and found that that skill mismatch was among the main reasons for the increase in both available job positions and unemployment between 2012 and 2013. Mercan et al (2015) revealed that the skill mismatch varied greatly between sectors: sectors with the highest rate of under-educated employees were agriculture and fisheries (39.9%), legal experts and senior civil servants (33.1%), and sales professionals and promotion staff (32.8%), respectively. In contrast, fields with the highest proportion of over-educated employees were physics and engineering specialists (36.6%), installation specialists (35.6%), customer relations specialists (32.7%), and commercial workers within the scope of metal and machine production (31.5%).…”

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“…Although important steps have been taken in recent years to increase the cooperation between VET and the labor market in Turkey, relatively few data-based studies have been conducted to examine the coherence between them (Bartlett, 2013;Ege, 2020;Erikli, 2015;Filiztekin, 2011;Galasi, 2008;MEB, 2018;Mercan et al, 2015;Suna et al, 2020a;Susanlı, 2020). As in many countries (Cappelli, 2015;CEDEFOP, 2018;McGuinness et al, 2017), although employers in Turkey frequently complain that they cannot find the employees they are looking for, it remains unclear whether these complaints indicate real problems, or which fields experience the greatest difficulty in this area.…”

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How compatible is the Supply of Vocational Education and Training Graduates with Labor Market Demand in Turkey?

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The transition of a country's graduates with vocational skills into the labor market indicates both the efficiency of vocational education and training (VET) and economic development. Many countries have conducted studies to monitor and match the expectations of the labor market with students’ preferences. Scholars and policymakers in Turkey have long debated the compatibility of the level of VET graduates’ skills and needs of the labor market and called for field studies to form a basis for national policy. The current study examine the relationship between open job positions in diverse professions, as indicated by İŞKUR's 2019 Labor Market Research (IPA), and the vocational fields of VET students at the regional level. The skills required by the open positions and the vocational fields in which these skills were acquired are linked in this study to evaluate their compatibility. The research findings showed remarkable differences between the demands of the labor market and the supply of VET graduates across Turkey. In some vocational fields, the imbalance occurred simultaneously across multiple regions. The results emphasize the importance of improving the balance between supply-and-demand at both the regional and provincial level to increase the compatibility between labor market demands and supply in VET.

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“…Among them, there are only seven studies that examine the consequences of mismatch on wage. These are Galasi (2008), Filiztekin (2011), Mercan et al (2015), Acar (2016), OECD (2016), Duman (2018) and Orbay et al (2021). OECD (2016) and Orbay et al (2021) are the only studies that analyze the effect of eld of study mismatch on wages.…”

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Why does mere field of study mismatch yield wage premium in the Turkish labor market?

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Erdil

2022

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Using a micro dataset from labor force survey of Turkey, this paper estimates the effects of covariates on wages by employing a quantile regression method, with special emphasis on the effect of overlapping mismatch. The analyses are conducted separately for two target groups: the employees who graduated from (i) higher education and (ii) vocational and technical high schools. For both target groups, employees who are well-matched by field of study but overeducated (mere vertical mismatch) and those who are both overeducated and mismatched by field of study (full-mismatch) incur wage penalties at an increasing rate along the wage distribution. However, for higher education, the effect of mere field of study mismatch (well-matched by education level but mismatched by field of study) on wages is mixed and novel to some extent in the literature. More notably, employees who graduated from higher education and who are merely field of study mismatched incur wage penalties at the first three quantiles of wage distribution but earn more than the well-matched employees at higher quantiles. This finding suggests that mere field of study mismatch need not be considered negative per se but it yields a wage premium, especially at higher quantiles of the wage distribution. This novel finding might imply that these employees are highly skilled and are preferred by employers with a reward of higher wages.

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“…While studies analyzing education mismatches in developed countries are plenty, the research focusing on Turkey is extremely sparse. In a recent paper, high levels of undereducation and overeducation are detected in Turkey, and it has been argued that even low skilled occupations such as subsistence agricultural and fishery suffers from mismatches (Mercan et al, 2015). With a different dataset and estimation methodology, the incidence of overeducation is estimated to be increasing between 1994 and 2002 from 20.3% to 24.6% with the mode measure and from 13.1% to 15.6% with the mean measure.…”

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Emek Piyasalarında Eğitim Uyumsuzlukları ve Sektörler Arasında Ücretlere Etkisi: Türkiye Örneği

Duman

2018

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The incidence of mismatch and its pay effects vary not only across countries but also across sectors due to different institutional arrangements. The first aim of the paper is to estimate education mismatches in the Turkish labor market. Our second aim is to distinguish the impact of education mismatches on wages in public and private sectors. The results of the analysis show returns on overeducation are lower than required education in both sectors similar to many other country examples. Moreover, we also show that wage differences between overeducation and required education are smaller in the private sector, and through Oaxaca decomposition method most of it can be explained by endowments. Lastly, the effect of undereducation on wages differs across sectors and we conclude that human capital model is not applicable to Turkish public sector.

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Sector-Based Analysis of the Education-Occupation Mismatch in the Turkish Labor Market

Cited by 4 publications

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How compatible is the Supply of Vocational Education and Training Graduates with Labor Market Demand in Turkey?

How compatible is the Supply of Vocational Education and Training Graduates with Labor Market Demand in Turkey?

Why does mere field of study mismatch yield wage premium in the Turkish labor market?

Emek Piyasalarında Eğitim Uyumsuzlukları ve Sektörler Arasında Ücretlere Etkisi: Türkiye Örneği

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