The Growing Pains of Education: Exploring Educational Mismatch Trends
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://reference-global.com/article/10.2478/revecp-2025-0004" target="_blank" >https://reference-global.com/article/10.2478/revecp-2025-0004</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/revecp-2025-0004" target="_blank" >10.2478/revecp-2025-0004</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Growing Pains of Education: Exploring Educational Mismatch Trends
Original language description
Since the 1990s, the Czech Republic has witnessed a significant increase in educational attainment, leading to a rise in educational mismatch. This study investigates the prevalence of vertical and horizontal educational mismatch using data from surveys conducted in 2011 and 2022 on Czech prime working-age employees. It provides insights into the evolving dynamics of educational mismatch, identifies the groups of employees most vulnerable to it, and offers suggestions to mitigate this phenomenon, improve labour market outcomes, and optimize the returns to educational investment. The analysis reveals a growing trend of overeducation over the past decade, particularly among women. In addition, substantial differences were found across fields of study. Fields such as the arts and humanities show high levels of both types of educational mismatch, while education and healthcare demonstrate better alignment. The findings - indicating that approximately half of the employee population experiences some form of educational mismatch - underscore persistent inefficiencies in the allocation of educational resources and highlight the private and societal costs associated with overeducation. Overeducated labour represents a strategic reserve of human capital that could facilitate the shift towards a digital and knowledge-driven economy - yet unlocking this potential will require targeted efforts to align qualifications with future labour market needs.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50200 - Economics and Business
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Review of Economic Perspectives
ISSN
1213-2446
e-ISSN
1804-1663
Volume of the periodical
25
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
48-65
UT code for WoS article
001572522900004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105020969650