Abstract

VASQUEZ OLAVE, Martha Cecilia et al. Over-education in economic and administrative sciences and in engineering in Cali city metropolitan area, 2001-2005. Semest. Econ. [online]. 2008, vol.11, n.22, pp.34-65. ISSN 0120-6346.

This research analyzes over-education in professional areas such as economics, accounting, administration, and engineering in Cali City Metropolitan Area. Information used has been taken from a survey applied to professional individuals from four universities from 2001 to 2005. From this information, corresponding inferences are made and a logit model is formulated for identifying factors influencing on over-education. Most significant results show that there was an over-education decrease from 48.02% to 38.57% from the first employment to current employment. Factors explaining over-education in both first and current employments are the following: genre, having been an employee for a private sector company, having been involved in service activities, having been an employee for micro- and small companies through informal search channels, and having graduated from economic and administrative sciences programs of studies.

Keywords : Professional labor markets; analysisis of education; demand and supply of labor professional.

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