The school-to-work transition, overeducation and wages of youth in Kyrgyzstan

Kamalbek KARIMŞAKOV | Burulça SULAYMANOVA

Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, it analyses the relationship between educational level, the school-to-work transition period for youth and positions which suffer from an education-job mismatch in Kyrgyzstan; and second, it investigates the effect of the education-job mismatch on the wages of youth in Kyrgyzstan. Design/methodology/approach The study uses the International Labor Organization 2013 data from the school-to-work transition survey for Kyrgyzstan. The Kaplan-Meier failure analysis is employed to demonstrate the relationship between school-to-work transition and m ...Более