Analyzing the incidence and causes offield of study mismatch in Turkey: evidence from TURKSTAT labor force surveys

Download

index.pdf

Date

2020

Author

Ege, Ahmet Alper

Metadata

Show full item record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Item Usage Stats

160
views

51
downloads

Field of study mismatch occurs when attained field of study is different from field of study required for doing the job well. Using TURKSTAT labor force surveys, this thesis attempts to analyze incidence level and causes of field of study mismatch in Turkey. Mismatch is measured by using coding scheme. Its determinants are analyzed by estimating binary logistic regression model, with an emphasis on the effect of labor market conditions. Analysis of incidences indicates that Turkey has high incidence of mismatch at an increasing trend between 2012 and 2016. The findings are remarkably much worse for some fields. For example, 92.5% of graduates from “arts” at vocational and technical high schools, and 71.2% of graduates from “computing” at higher education work in jobs that are unrelated to their fields of study. Regression results for 2016 yields that likelihood of mismatch increases as “field specific employment rate” decreases, which indicates that mismatch does not result uniquely from workers’ choice, but is highly responsive to labor market context. Moreover, overeducated employees are far more likely to be mismatched than vertically well-matched ones. These findings imply that when supply of graduates from a field is more than jobs available in that field, graduates are forced to accept jobs outside their fields and/or below their education level which causes them to be field of study mismatched and/or overeducated. Balancing supply of graduates and improving effectiveness of labor market mechanism may be primary policy recommendations to be proposed by focusing on high priority fields which have the highest incidences with the worst labor market indicators.

Subject Keywords

Labor market, Labor market, Field of study mismatch, horizontal mismatch, vertical mismatch, education mismatch, labor supply.

URI

http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12625195/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/44783

Collections

Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

Investigating stakeholders’ perceptions of employability factors: evidence from a vocational college in Nevşehir Sarıkaya, Yelda; Akar, Hanife; Department of Social Policy (2011) The main purpose of this study was to examine and describe college students’ and graduates’ perceptions of the received and expected levels of employability skills and qualities clustered into the domains of communication, mathematics, quantitative, foreign language, technology, teamworking, learning, problem-solving, adaptability, and personal qualities during college training, and also to assess college educators’ and employers’ perceptions regarding the importance level of identified employability skills...
Journey into Doctoral Candidacy: A Grounded Theory Study of Doctoral Qualification Exam Process Burakgazi, Sevinc Gelmez; Yıldırım, Ali (2017-01-01) The purpose of this study is to investigate the process doctoral students go through in qualification exam. Within a grounded theory design, a series of in-depth interviews were carried out with six doctoral candidates to inquire into their thoughts and experiences. Data collection started four months before the qualification exam and ended approximately a month after the exam had been taken. A total of 127 pages of interview transcripts were produced as a result of interviews. The data from these interview...
Analysis of a Content-based Needs Assessment Survey for Physics Teachers OKTAY, Özlem; Eryılmaz, Ali (Hacettepe University, 2020-04-01) The purpose of the study is to develop and analyze a content-based needs assessment survey for physics teachers. With this aim, a Teacher Survey on the Nature of Physics (TSNOP) was developed as a measurement instrument for the study. The TSNOP was used to identify inservice physics teachers' needs, wishes, expectations and problems for the Nature of Physics (NOP) unit of a Professional Development Program (PDP). A total of 60 inservice physics teachers participated in the study. TSNOP includes four specifi...
Concurrent validity and test-retest reliability of the information processing styles Baloğlu, Mustafa; Zelhart, PF (2000-12-01) To investigate concurrent validity and test-retest reliability of thr Information Processing Styles, 62 students majoring in social sciences evaluated the accuracy of the checklist in describing their dominant types. Each student had a friend who read the descriptions of thy dominant types(s) of the student and rated their perceived accuracy of that categorization. Analyses indicated the inventory is reliable and valid.
Comparison of homogeneity tests for temperature using a simulation study Yozgatlıgil, Ceylan (Wiley, 2016-01-01) Homogeneity testing is one of the most important analyses in climate-related studies as it underpins the reliability of any inferences. The effects not directly related with climate are identified and removed from the meteorological variables, and then the obtained homogeneous variables are used to present an enhanced picture of the current situation and produce realistic forecasts based upon the variables. In this study, we investigate the performances of well-known homogeneity tests and introduce some tes...

Citation Formats

A. A. Ege, “Analyzing the incidence and causes offield of study mismatch in Turkey: evidence from TURKSTAT labor force surveys,” Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences. Science and Technology Policy Studies, Middle East Technical University, 2020.