Education and job match: The relatedness of college major and work

By John M Robst. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education

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Person-Group Value Congruence and Subjective Well-Being in Students from Argentina, Bulgaria and Finland: The Role of Interpersonal Relationships (2015, background): “Within the vocational (Robst, 2007; Dawis & Lofquist, 1984) and organizational literature (Maslach & Leiter, 2008), there is substantial research interest in person–environment (P–E) fit, which can be ‘broadly defined as the compatibility between an individual and a work environment that occurs when”
The economic returns to field of study and competencies among higher education graduates in Ireland (2010, background): “ Robst (2007) found that the wage effects from mismatch are greater in fields that”
The lifetime earnings premia of different majors: Correcting for selection based on cognitive, noncognitive, and unobserved factors (2014, background): “Robst (2007) provides evidence that there can be signi cant wage penalties for workers employed in elds di erent from their college major.”
Basic employability skills: a triangular design approach (2012, background): “Robst (2007) stated that college students believed that a college education provided them with all the skills necessary to obtain employment upon graduation.”
Do Fields of Study Matter for Over-education? (2008, background): “The only possibly exceptions are studies of Robst (2007) and Wolbers (2003) where a stylized version of horizontal mismatches are discussed.”
School-to-Work Linkages, Educational Mismatches, and Labor Market Outcomes (2019, methodology): “How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan.”
Limitations of human capital theory* (2019, background): “Others know graduate earnings only in their chosen occupation, not related fields (Robst 2007, 399).”
How Useful is the Concept of Skills Mismatch? (2017, methodology): “Verhaest et al. (2015), Robst (2007) and Robert (2014) find a higher likelihood of horizontal mismatch among graduates of arts, humanities and social sciences.”
An Analysis of Skill Mismatch Using Direct Measures of Skills (2011, methodology): “Taking into account the limitations, Robst (2007) used the 1993 US National Survey of College Graduates to find that about 55% of respondents are in a job that closely relates to their degree field, while 25% are in jobs that are somewhat related to their area of study and 20% are in jobs that are…”