Education-job mismatches, especially overeducation or vertical mismatch, are generally found to lower the worker’s job satisfaction, which may generate the counter-productive behaviors, such as high rates of absenteeism and turnover in developed countries. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of educational mismatches from their both forms and dimensions (match, overeducation, horizontal mismatch and double mismatch) on the job satisfaction among university graduates in Cambodia.,To deal with the sample selection bias owing to the unobserved job satisfaction of unemployed graduates, this paper applies the Heckman probit model on a survey conducted with 19 higher education institutions in Cambodia.,Results indicate that a half of graduates suffer at least one type of educational mismatch and the both forms of mismatches adversely affect the job satisfaction with the strongest impact from the double mismatch case.,The authors take into account the sample selection bias, but are not able to deal with the unobserved heterogeneity, such as individual competences and preferences. With the panel data, it would be possible to isolate those individual fixed effects.,The findings underline the importance of improvement in the quality of higher education in Cambodia that seems to play a main role in this education-job mismatch problem. Creating the occupational counseling for the high school students would be also helpful to orientate students to the majors strongly needed by the labor market.,This paper focuses on all forms and dimensions of mismatches and takes into account the sample selection bias in the context of a low-income country where the increasing rate of enrollment in higher education seems to be accompanied by an increasing rate of education-job mismatches. Previous research works focused mostly on overeducation and in developed countries.

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教育失配对工作满意度的影响

通常发现教育工作失配，特别是过度教育或垂直失配，会降低工人的工作满意度，这可能会产生适得其反的行为，例如发达国家的旷工率和离职率很高。本文的目的是从形式和维度（匹配，过度教育，水平不匹配和双重不匹配）两个方面检查教育不匹配对柬埔寨大学毕业生工作满意度的影响。针对失业毕业生的未观察到的工作满意度，本文将Heckman Probit模型应用于与柬埔寨19个高等教育机构进行的调查中。结果表明，一半的毕业生经历了至少一种教育失配，并且两种失配形式都对工作满意度产生了不利影响，其中双重失配案例的影响最大。作者考虑了样本选择偏见，但没有能够处理未观察到的异质性，例如个人能力和偏好。借助面板数据，有可能将那些单独的固定效应隔离开来。研究结果突显了改善柬埔寨高等教育质量的重要性，这似乎在这一教育工作失配问题中起着主要作用。为高中生提供职业咨询也将有助于使学生适应劳动力市场强烈需要的专业。本文关注失配的所有形式和维度，并考虑到低收入国家的样本选择偏见，在该国，高等教育入学率的增加似乎伴随着教育与工作失配率的增加。先前的研究工作主要集中在教育过度和发达国家。