TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Shen, Kailing
AU  - Kuhn, Peter J.
        TI  - Do Chinese Employers Avoid Hiring Overqualified Workers? Evidence from an Internet Job Board
        PY  - 2012/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6848
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp6848
        AB  - Can having more education than a job requires reduce one's chances of being offered the job? We study this question in a sample of applications to jobs that are posted on an urban Chinese website. We find that being overqualified in this way does not reduce the success rates of university-educated jobseekers applying to college-level jobs, but that it does hurt college-educated workers' chances when applying to jobs requiring technical school, which involves three fewer years of education than college. Our results highlight a difficult situation faced by the recent large cohort of college-educated Chinese workers: They seem to fare poorly in the competition for jobs, both when pitted against more-educated university graduates, and when pitted against less-educated technical school graduates.
        KW  - internet
KW  - job search
KW  - overqualification
KW  - China
        ER  -