The expansion of higher education, employment and over-education in China

Li, Fengliang; Morgan, W. John; Xiaohao, Ding

doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2007.10.002

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“…It was, for example, estimated there were 7000 jobless returnee graduates in Shanghai alone in 2003 (Zweig 2006). Meanwhile, a massive expansion of HE enrolments in China -from 7.4 to 29.3 million between 2000 and 2009 (UNESCO Institute for Statistics 2012b) -has also contributed to fiercer labour market competition and graduate unemployment there (Li, Morgan, and Ding 2008;Waters 2009). Taken together, these developments have impacts on the Chinese labour market that are complex and often contradictory, through the simultaneous expansion of opportunity and intensification of competition, and consequently a range of implications for Chinese graduates.…”

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A critical account of employability construction through the eyes of Chinese postgraduate students in the UK

Zhen

2013

Journal of Education and Work

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A critical account of employability construction through the eyes of Chinese postgraduate students in the UK

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2013

Journal of Education and Work

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“…The fact that the most recent surveys in China found somewhat higher prevalence estimates of mental disorders (Lee et al, 2008) suggests that the actual societal-level cost of mental disorders could be higher. Another factor that could lead to low societal impact was the competitiveness of the job market in urban China following rapid market reform (Li et al, 2008). Since people with SMI could have been marginalized to perform low pay jobs, the loss of their earnings might not reflect the real magnitude of societal economic loss due to SMI.…”

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Individual and societal impact on earnings associated with serious mental illness in metropolitan China

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Tsang

Huang

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Psychiatry Research

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To evaluate individual-level and societal-level losses of income associated with serious mental illness in metropolitan China, a multi-stage probability survey was administered to adults aged 18–70 in Beijing and Shanghai. We used data to estimate individual-level expected earnings from a model that included information about the respondents’ education level, marital status, age, and gender. Expected earnings were compared to observed earnings among respondents with mental illness and serious disability. The result shows that the 12-month prevalence of such serious mental illness was 0.6%. Its impact on earnings was significant in the total sample and was higher for males (76% of gender-specific expected salary was lost) than females (32%). When projected to societal level, the annual impact was estimated to be 466 million Renminbi (RMB 8.27= USD 1), less than 0.2% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the two cities. Serious mental illness was associated with a substantial decrease in individual-level earnings, but the burden that resulted from societal-level loss of earnings was not large enough to help drive mental health policy and programs in China.

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“…Thus, it was also the United States that started the trend of overeducation [2]. By the end of the 20 th century, this issue began gaining attention in other parts of the world, and in particular, Europe [3] , [4] and Asia [1], [5] started facing the problem of overeducation. This signifies that these regions caught up with the speed of higher educationexpansion in the United States and thus faced the same problems of overeducation and changes in the labor market.…”

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The Expansion of Higher Education and Overeducation in Taiwan: Evidence from 1997 to 2007

Xiao¹

2015

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Abstrac-Higher education in Taiwan underwent rapid development over the past two decades. This research adopted the resultsof the survey on the present state of human resources conducted by the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics to investigate the influence of overeducation on the human resource market. This study incorporated multiple methods of calculating overeducation to investigate the inconsistencies between the results and the explanations for these.Results showed that the rate of overeducation did not show much variation in the past decade according to both the standard deviation method and the modal method and that the findings conformed to the statistical results of past domestic studies. The salary regression model provided a good explanatory effect of overeducation and undereducation, and was conducive to the explanation and analysis of education level effects on salary. The standard deviation method was comparatively more effective than the modal method in calculating the rate of overeducation. This is related to the looser definition of adequate education in the standard deviation method.

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The expansion of higher education, employment and over-education in China

Cited by 91 publications

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A critical account of employability construction through the eyes of Chinese postgraduate students in the UK

A critical account of employability construction through the eyes of Chinese postgraduate students in the UK

Individual and societal impact on earnings associated with serious mental illness in metropolitan China

The Expansion of Higher Education and Overeducation in Taiwan: Evidence from 1997 to 2007

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