Work-Education Mismatch: An Endogenous Theory of Professionalization.

Navid Ghaffarzadegan, Yi Xue, Richard C Larson

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Article in European journal of operational research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors.

Navid GhaffarzadeganAssistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, 231 Durham Hall, 1145 Perry St, Blacksburg, VA 24061.

Yi XueEngineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 77 Massachusetts Ave., Building E40-233, Cambridge, MA 02139.

Richard C LarsonMitsui Professor of Engineering Systems, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 77 Massachusetts Ave., Building E40-233, Cambridge, MA 02139.

Funding

Developing a Scientific Workforce Analysis and Modeling FrameworkU01GM094141 · NIGMS · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI HAWLEY, JOSHUA · 2010 to 2018

$3.0M

NIGMS NIH HHS U01 GM094141

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We model the education-workforce pipeline and offer an endogenous theory of professionalization and ever-higher degree attainment. We introduce two mechanisms that act on the education enterprise, causing the number of educated people to increase dramatically with relatively short-term changes in the job market. Using our illustrative dynamic model, we argue that the system is susceptible to small changes and the introduced self-driving growth engines are adequate to over-incentivize degree attainment. We also show that the mechanisms magnify effects of short-term recessions or technological changes, and create long-term waves of mismatch between workforce and jobs. The implication of the theory is degree inflation, magnified pressures on those with lower degrees, underemployment, and job market mismatch and inefficiency.

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education mismatcheducation policyinefficiencypublic policySystem dynamics

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PMID28713195

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2017.02.041

PMCPMC5509065

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