We examine the persistence of educational mismatches in relation to job mobility in South Korea, the USA, and Germany using ten‐year panel data. The USA, with a flexible labour market, has the highest job mobility, so mismatches for workers’ jobs in terms of educational attainment are resolved via job mobility. In contrast, in Korea, which has a dual‐structure labour market where workers have limited job mobility between core and periphery sectors, the likelihood of being mismatched increases. In Germany, the educational system, which emphasises job training, makes it possible to resolve or extinguish mismatches via job mobility only for the youth; while job mobility does not help resolve mismatches in any other age groups. These findings indicate that the different patterns in job mobility resolving mismatches over the three countries may not only stem from the efficacy of job information systems or from reducing friction in the labour market but may also be an interactive outcome of various labour market institutions affecting flexibility, such as stratification or job competency.

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韩国，美国和德国的教育不匹配和工作解决方案

我们使用十年的面板数据研究了韩国，美国和德国与工作流动性相关的教育失衡的持续存在。在劳动力市场灵活的美国，工作流动性最高，因此，通过工作流动性可以解决工人在教育水平方面的不匹配问题。相反，在拥有双重结构的劳动力市场的韩国，工人在核心部门和外围部门之间的工作流动性有限，错配的可能性增加了。在德国，强调职业培训的教育体系使得仅年轻人就可以通过工作流动来解决或消除错配。而工作流动性无助于解决其他年龄段的失配问题。