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- Title
The Occupational Context of Mismatch: Measuring the Link Between Occupations and Areas of Study to Better Understand Job- Worker Match.
- Authors
MARIN, ALEXANDRA; HAYES, SEAN
- Abstract
Scholars have long been interested in the prevalence, causes, and consequences of workers being well matched or poorly matched to their jobs. Researchers have moved beyond thinking of mismatch as a simple issue of deficit or surplus of skill or education to ask if workers' skills or education are relevant to their jobs. The next step for workers studying job-worker match is to consider the relevance of relevance. The causes and consequences of not having relevant education will be different in occupations that are closely tied to particular fields of study than in those not linked to any field of study. To facilitate this research agenda we develop seven measures of the link between occupations and fields of study in the Canadian labour market. We test the validity and robustness of these measures. We discuss when each measure is most appropriate and provide an appendix listing values for the three best-performing measures, calculated for Statistics Canada 4-digit occupational codes.
- Subjects
CANADA; LABOR market; OCCUPATIONS; UNDEREMPLOYMENT; JOB skills; COLLEGE majors; EDUCATIONAL attainment
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 2017, Vol 42, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.29173/cjs19415