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Advances in Economics and Business Vol. 2(3), pp. 127 - 132
DOI: 10.13189/aeb.2014.020302
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Graduate Overschooling: Measurement Issues and the Nigeria Situation
Nsisong A. Udoh *, Eme U. Joseph , Ijeoma J. Amajuoyi
Department of Educational Foundations, Guidance and Counselling, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria
ABSTRACT
This paper provides a brief account of contemporary issues in overschooling. The main emphasis is on theoretical and measurement approaches to graduate overschooling. The paper draws on four models (the neoclassical account, Spence鈥檚 Job-Screening Model, Thurow鈥檚 Job-Competition Model, and Beck鈥檚 Human Capital Theory) to explain the measures of overschooling, job-skill match and wage equilibrium on both the short run and the long run. The paper further assesses, based on literature from industrial psychology, how overschooling with attendant job dissatisfaction can result in adverse workplace behaviour with attendant counter-productivity. The paper then presents a prevue of the overschooling situation in Nigeria before it concludes with extensive recommendations for public and private policy makers, educators, economists, and education investors.
KEYWORDS
Overschooling, Measures, Theories, Nigerian Graduates
Cite This Paper in IEEE or APA Citation Styles
(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Nsisong A. Udoh , Eme U. Joseph , Ijeoma J. Amajuoyi , "Graduate Overschooling: Measurement Issues and the Nigeria Situation," Advances in Economics and Business, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 127 - 132, 2014. DOI: 10.13189/aeb.2014.020302.
(b). APA Format:
Nsisong A. Udoh , Eme U. Joseph , Ijeoma J. Amajuoyi (2014). Graduate Overschooling: Measurement Issues and the Nigeria Situation. Advances in Economics and Business, 2(3), 127 - 132. DOI: 10.13189/aeb.2014.020302.