The Social and Political Consequences of Overeducation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5249461 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Val Burris (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 454 |
| Publication date | 1983-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2117714 |
| OpenAlex | W2067135763 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 67 |
| References cited | 27 |
This study employs national survey data to estimate the extent of overeducation in the U.S. labor force and its impact on a variety of worker attitudes. Estimates are made of the extent of overeducation and its distribution among different categories of workers, according to sex, race, age, and class background. The effects of overeducation are examined in four areas of worker attitudes: job satisfaction, political leftism, political alienation, and stratification ideology. Evidence is found of significant effects of overeducation on job satisfaction and several aspects of stratification ideology. The magnitude of these effects is small, however, and they are concentrated almost exclusively among very highly overeducated workers. No evidence is found of generalized political effects of overeducation, either in the form of increased political leftism or in the form of increased political alienation. These findings fail to support the common prediction of major political repercussions of overeducation and suggest the likelihood of alternative forms of adaptation among overeducated workers
Demographic economics · Economics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Overeducation in the Labour Market
Who’s for Meritocracy? Individual and Contextual Variations in the Faith
Consecuencias sociales y culturales de la sobreeducación
Unemployment Persistency, Over-education and the Employment Chances of the Less Educated
There’s more to overeducation than a wage penalty
The Signaling Paradox
What an (Un) Favorable Match
Reaching for the stars and settling for the moon
Impact of earnings and self-employment opportunities on overeducation
The incidence of overeducation among international students upon graduation in Ireland
Does perceived overqualification cultivate angels or demons? Examining its interpersonal outcomes through pride from an evolutionary psychology perspective
Worker Control and Attachment to the Firm
Racial Differences in Underemployment in American Cities
Job Mismatches and their Labour-Market Effects among School-Leavers in Europe
Sur-éducation et déclassement socioprofessionnel dans l’accès à l’emploi
Overeducation and Skill Mismatch
A review of educational attainment measures for social survey research
Great Expectations
Trap versus trade-off
The Political Significance of Overeducation
Overeducation
Transition From School to Work in Transition Economies
Theory at risk
Educational mismatch, labor market completeness, and gender
The effects of socio-economic development on student academic performance and life plans
Intelligence, Education, and Facets of Job Satisfaction
Forward and backward, horizontal and vertical
Employment transitions in the Netherlands, 1980–2004
Overeducation, perceived career progress, and work satisfaction in young adulthood
Demographic, organizational and economic determinants of work satisfaction
Underutilization in the U.S. Manufacturing Sector, 1960 to 1970
The Education-Occupation Mismatch of International and Internal Migrants in Mexico, 2005–2012
Refining the association between education and health
Is Education Becoming a Weaker Determinant of Occupation? Educational Expansion and Occupational Returns to Education in 30 European Countries
Economic and Non-economic Returns to Higher Education during a Period of Educational Expansion in the Czech Republic
Education and its Discontents
Educational-Occupational Fit and Leisure Orientation as Related to Life Satisfaction
Graduate Overeducation and its Effects among Recently Arrived Immigrants to Australia
Recent Developments in Attitudes and Social Structure
A Research Agenda for the Black Middle Class
Underemployment in the Netherlands
Educational mismatch and mortality among native‐born workers in Sweden. A 19‐year longitudinal study of 2.5 million over‐educated, matched and under‐educated individuals, 1990–2008
Job training in polarizing job markets
What Workers Want Depends
An Empirical Test of Alternative Theories of Educational Inequality
Influence of university prestige on graduate wage and job satisfaction
Relative Education and the Advantage of a College Degree
La vivencia del desclasamiento. El caso de la cohorte de treintañeros con título superior en España
The Weakening Position of University Graduates in Singapore's Labor Market
Educational Credentials, Elite Dualism, and Elite Stratification in China
The Mutability of Educational Credentials as Hiring Criteria
Education and Job Satisfaction
Willful Versus Woeful Underemployment
Different Country, Same Work
Who's the Boss
Consequences of Unemployment in the Transition from Youth to Adulthood in a Life Course Perspective
Why do academics oppose the market? A test of Nozick's hypothesis
Social Background, Credential Inflation and Educational Strategies
Trends in the Occupational Returns to Educational Credentials in the Dutch Labor Market
Under- or overexpansion of education? Trends in qualification mismatch in the United Kingdom and Germany, 1984-2017
Occupational stratification, job-mismatches, and child poverty
Measuring short-term labor force mobility with the Labor Utilization Framework
Educational-Occupational Mismatch, Race/Ethnicity, and Immigrant Wealth Attainment
Over-education and Job Satisfaction among New Graduates in China
Overeducation as Status Inconsistency
Measuring Overeducation
Labor Mismatches
Mental health of the industrial worker
Men and women of the corporation
A Study of Ghetto Rioters
Education and jobs
Labor and Monopoly Capital
Who Voted for Hitler
Education and Training Requirements for Occupations
Economic Criteria for Education and Training
Continuities in Theories of Status Consistency and Cognitive Dissonance
Two Categories of Political Alienation
The great training robbery
Status Consistency and Preference for Change In Power Distribution
The Intellectuals in the Political Development of the New States
The Identification Problem and Theory Building
Effects of Vertical Mobility and Status Inconsistency
Managers and Work Reform
Social Participation and Status Crystallization
Socioeconomic-Ethnic Status Inconsistency and Preference for Political Change
Status and Symptoms of Stress
Alienation
Dimensions of Political Alienation
Status Inconsistency and Lower-Class Leftist Radicalism
Status Inconsistency and Ethnoreligious Group Membership as Determinants of Social Participation and Political Attitudes
Class Identification in the United States
Status Inconsistency and Interaction
| Unique citing works | 67 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,68 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2026 (41) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 67 |