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Overeducated? What is the optimal level of education?

by spada 13y ago

im3w1l 13y ago
By overeducated the author means that there are many more being educated then there are positions to fill.
- camus2 13y ago
  Yeah,that's why US businesses spend their time outsourcing engineering positions or recruting foreigners or demanding immigration reforms... because US citizens are over educated...yeah right.
  - mieses 13y ago
    over-entitled, maybe
  - chadwickthebold 13y ago
    I may be wrong but I think the author specifically referred to an overproduction of Law Degrees? Not seeing too many of those being outsourced..
  - FedRegister 13y ago
    No, they often do so because they don't want to pay the rates demanded by US-educated engineers. The education bubble affects more than just the people that take on the debt. Their demands for a salary that can maintain and pay off that debt affects US businesses. It's a competitiveness issue. Often the reason a firm will outsource the position is to save money and have a level of labor control that would be illegal in most states if the worker were a citizen and employee instead of foreign contractor.
pwnna 13y ago
I think it's poorly worded. It's saying that that level of education has enough people employed. Anybody continues to pursuit that career (lawyers according to the article) is therefore "overeducated".
- skunkworks 13y ago
  It reads better than "underjobbed".
  - WalterSear 13y ago
    It's more accurate than 'overqualified'.
JonSkeptic 13y ago
9000
plorkyeran 13y ago
In the specific case of a law degree, for most people the sole purpose of the degree is to get a job as a lawyer, so if they are not able to find such a job then they receive no utility from their level of education and so are overeducated. In general I dislike the concept, as it's usually used to decry education that the author sees as pointless, rather than the recipient of the education.
- keithpeter 13y ago
  "...for most people the sole purpose of the degree is to get a job as a lawyer, so if they are not able to find such a job then they receive no utility from their level of education..." Might the system as a whole benefit from some selection of those with law degrees (minimum criterion) for best fit to available jobs?

Overeducated? What is the optimal level of education?

by spada 13y ago

Overeducated? What is the optimal level of education?

im3w1l 13y ago

By overeducated the author means that there are many more being educated then there are positions to fill.

camus2 13y ago
Yeah,that's why US businesses spend their time outsourcing engineering positions or recruting foreigners or demanding immigration reforms... because US citizens are over educated...yeah right.
- mieses 13y ago
  over-entitled, maybe
- chadwickthebold 13y ago
  I may be wrong but I think the author specifically referred to an overproduction of Law Degrees? Not seeing too many of those being outsourced..
- FedRegister 13y ago
  No, they often do so because they don't want to pay the rates demanded by US-educated engineers. The education bubble affects more than just the people that take on the debt. Their demands for a salary that can maintain and pay off that debt affects US businesses. It's a competitiveness issue. Often the reason a firm will outsource the position is to save money and have a level of labor control that would be illegal in most states if the worker were a citizen and employee instead of foreign contractor.

pwnna 13y ago

I think it's poorly worded. It's saying that that level of education has enough people employed. Anybody continues to pursuit that career (lawyers according to the article) is therefore "overeducated".

skunkworks 13y ago
It reads better than "underjobbed".
- WalterSear 13y ago
  It's more accurate than 'overqualified'.

JonSkeptic 13y ago

9000

plorkyeran 13y ago

In the specific case of a law degree, for most people the sole purpose of the degree is to get a job as a lawyer, so if they are not able to find such a job then they receive no utility from their level of education and so are overeducated. In general I dislike the concept, as it's usually used to decry education that the author sees as pointless, rather than the recipient of the education.

keithpeter 13y ago
"...for most people the sole purpose of the degree is to get a job as a lawyer, so if they are not able to find such a job then they receive no utility from their level of education..." Might the system as a whole benefit from some selection of those with law degrees (minimum criterion) for best fit to available jobs?