Abstract

Over education is not only happening in the Western countries. Since the enrollment of Chinese universities, the incidence of over-education has been significantly improved, and the study of over-education has been promoted. This paper begins with the definition of over-education, and combs the relevant research on over-education in the 1930s. It introduces the methods of over-education commonly used in China, the incidence of over-education, the impact of over-education on income. This paper also analyzes the problems of over-education.

Highlights

  • According to the American educational sociologist Martin Trow proposed the development of the national higher education stage: the gross enrollment ratio of higher education is 15% bellow for the elite education stage, 15% - 50% for the mass education stage, while for the general education stage is more than 50%

  • As the government stressed the number of talents for a long time, while ignoring the improvement of the quality of education, which leads to the result that the labor market cannot match the output of high educated talents in a short time and the phenomenon of low position with high education

  • The over-education cannot be wiped out completely as people’s pursuit of knowledge is not entire utilitarianism and market regulation takes time, so it is similar to the natural rate of unemployment, and over-education should have a “natural over-rate”, which is reasonable for over-education with the scope of the natural over-rate while the government should involve and guide to avoid over-education when beyond the scope

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Summary

Introduction

According to the American educational sociologist Martin Trow proposed the development of the national higher education stage: the gross enrollment ratio of higher education is 15% bellow for the elite education stage, 15% - 50% for the mass education stage, while for the general education stage is more than 50%. In 1999, the State Council approved the “Plan for the 21st Century Education Revitalization” proposed in 2010 to enter the mass education stage, while China’s higher education gross enrollment rate has reached 15% in 2002, which means ahead of entering to the mass education stage. K. Gao et al 38 the excessive scale means that supply exceeds demand of labor in the labor market, which will result in a lower wage rate, and lead to taking lower position for highly educated person. What is the status quo of education in China? Does it have over-education in reality?

The Definition and Measurement Methods
Incident Rate of Over-Education
The Impacts on Income to Educational Level and Job Dismatching
The Analysis on Problems of Over-Education
Findings
Conclusion

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