Industrialised countries are currently facing the knowledge-to-digital economy transition. That transition is strictly defined by how the labour market is organised and operates in the national economy. Some old to new phenomena are determinants of those dimensions, such as educational mismatch, credential inflation, and job polarisation. These phenomena affect the relationship between schooling and earnings, carrying consequences for social mobility, household welfare, and an individual's social progression perspective. Those phenomena remain understudied in the context of Latin America. Chile's case has gained relevance in the region due to the highly deregulated organisation of its educational market, the quality increase in its higher education institutions, and its funding policies for higher education. This work attempts to provide an extended diagnosis of the Chilean labour market, considering the impact of these emerging issues on the educational market and policymaking. The results show that 83.6% of Chilean employees experience an educational mismatch (overeducation and undereducation); credential inflation has depreciated the value of education over five of the six occupational categories – besides the polarisation index for industrialised countries such as the United Kingdom.

工业化国家目前正面临知识向数字经济的过渡。过渡由劳动力市场在国民经济中的组织和运作方式严格定义。某些新旧现象是这些方面的决定因素，例如教育失配，证书通货膨胀和工作两极分化。这些现象影响了就学与收入之间的关系，对社会流动性，家庭福利和个人的社会进步观点产生了影响。这些现象在拉丁美洲范围内仍未得到充分研究。智利的案例因其教育市场的高度放松组织，其高等教育机构的质量提高以及其高等教育资助政策而在该地区具有重要意义。考虑到这些新兴问题对教育市场和政策制定的影响，这项工作试图对智利劳动力市场进行扩展诊断。结果表明，有83.6％的智利员工经历了教育失配（教育过度和教育不足）；凭证式通货膨胀使六种职业类别中的五种中的教育价值贬值–除了英国等工业化国家的两极分化指数。