关键词: 过度教育, 非参数检验, 定序回归

Abstract: This paper employs nonparametric testing methods and ordinal regression to study the prevailing mismatch between job and education, also known as over-education, concerning the Chinese labor market. Empirical results suggest that the malfunction of the labor market should be ascribed to individuals' education level, their size of household, the ownership and scale of the affiliated companies. Over-education is more likely to happen in foreign companies, especially in those from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, rather than mainland based ones. As for the company scales, large companies feature most of the over-education. Specified methods, like the measuring of the intensity of over-education and the introducing of ordinal regression, make this paper distinguish from the existing literatures. At last, pertinent suggestions are proposed to alleviate the over-education.

Key words: over-education, nonparametric testing, ordinal regression