The Impact of Education-Occupation Mismatch on Job Satisfaction

• Main Authors: Shr-Huei Hung, 洪詩惠
• Other Authors: hung-hua tian
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85736870578943211270

碩士 === 世新大學 === 經濟學研究所(含碩專班) === 98 === Since the time that government has removed the threshold for setting up institute for tertiary education, graduate of university has soared up year after year. As viewed from the perspective of manpower, education is, in reality, a kind of investment as the professional knowledge students learn in university should prepare themselves for the skills of future work. If what they learn cannot be practiced it will lower the return of education. Nonetheless, it has been oftentimes observed that the phenomenon of discrepancy of study against practice does exist within job market, and scenario of kind will, for the holistic economy, not only render waste to educational resources, but also lower job satisfaction for individuals. In turn affect the employment market This article will investigate “The Impact of Education-Occupation Mismatch on Job Satisfaction” and the information has taken from the “Graduate Questionnaire from 2002” of Taiwan Higher Education Database of , a project chaired by Professor Pang Sen-ming. The factors that affect work satisfaction can be found into three major categories as personal variables, employment scenario, and university career, and they are respectively explored of relationship to work satisfaction. Using STATA as statistic software, chi-square test, and binary logit model to conduct verification and analysis of statistics, they can effectively interpret the occurrence ratio of each of the variables against work satisfaction. As found form the study, current work in relation to the department attended, salary income, working hours every week, work nature, service institute, major in university, and ranking of graduation performance are the prominent variables that affect work satisfaction. It is further discovered from previous oversea literatures that gender as a prominent factor that affects work satisfaction is not rather prominent as seen in this research result. Regarding the impact on work satisfaction for work that finds consistency to their major in school, statistic analysis using binary logit model conducted has come to the finding that graduate whose present work that is more related to their major in school would share grater work satisfaction, showing the fact the “consistency of study and practice” can render positive and direct impact on work satisfaction.