The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, it analyses the relationship between educational level, the school-to-work transition period for youth and positions which suffer from an education-job mismatch in Kyrgyzstan; and second, it investigates the effect of the education-job mismatch on the wages of youth in Kyrgyzstan.,The study uses the International Labor Organization 2013 data from the school-to-work transition survey for Kyrgyzstan. The Kaplan–Meier failure analysis is employed to demonstrate the relationship between school-to-work transition and mismatch status. To investigate the effect of an education-job mismatch on wages, a Mincer-type equation with OLS estimations is used. Along with this, taking into consideration potential unobserved heterogeneity issue, a propensity score matching method is applied.,The results indicate a large difference between those with tertiary education and those with non-tertiary education in terms of the probability of being employed with a wrong match. Young individuals without tertiary education are more likely to be employed with a right match. Analysis of the impact of overeducation on wages shows that the impact of overeducation depends on how it is measured. According to the objective approach, overeducated male individuals receive low wages compared to well matched, but estimation results based on the total sample of subjective approach indicate the positive effects of overeducation on wage.,This paper contributes to the existing literature on the school-to-work transition and overeducation by focusing on one of the transition economies, which has been largely neglected by the literature.

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吉尔吉斯斯坦从学校到工作的过渡，过度教育和年轻人的工资

本文的目的是双重的：首先，它分析了吉尔吉斯斯坦的教育水平，青年从学校到工作的过渡时期与遭受教育与工作失衡的职位之间的关系。其次，该研究使用了吉尔吉斯斯坦教育与工作不匹配对青年人工资的影响。该研究使用了国际劳工组织2013年吉尔吉斯斯坦从学校到工作过渡调查的数据。Kaplan–Meier失败分析用于证明从学校到工作的过渡与失配状态之间的关系。为了研究教育与工作不匹配对工资的影响，使用了带有OLS估计的Mincer型方程。同时，考虑到潜在的未观察到的异质性问题，应用了倾向得分匹配方法。结果表明，受过错误匹配的可能性使受过高等教育的人与未经受过高等教育的人相差很大。没有大专学历的年轻人更有可能获得合适的就业机会。过度教育对工资的影响分析表明，过度教育的影响取决于如何衡量。根据客观的方法，受过良好教育的男性个人的工资要比完全匹配的男性低，但基于主观方法总样本的估计结果表明教育过度对工资的积极影响。 -通过着重于一种转型经济体来进行工作转型和过度教育，而这在文献中已被很大程度上忽略了。