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Record W2134073797 · doi:10.1177/0020715208093079

Do Fields of Study Matter for Over-education?

2008· article· en· W2134073797 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Luís Ortiz, Aleksander Kucel

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Comparative Sociology · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicLabor market dynamics and wage inequality
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOddsSample (material)GermanDemographic economicsField (mathematics)Position (finance)Selection (genetic algorithm)Higher educationEconometricsEconomicsSociologyGeographyEconomic growthStatisticsMathematicsComputer scienceLogistic regression

Abstract

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Resorting to European Labor Force Survey 2003—2005 data and controlling for factors traditionally accounting for over-education, we demonstrate here that fields of study influence the odds of being overeducated in Spain and in Germany. Being more stratified than the Spanish system of education, the German one uses fields of study as a signaling device for the labor market to a lesser extent than Spanish one. Cross-country similarities in terms of the relative position of fields of study within the country are discussed. Two samples have been researched: a general sample with information about individuals' fields of study as well as a restricted sample with additional information individuals' parental ISEI score, when such information was available. Heckman selection modeling has been applied to the latter (restricted) sample. A new technique has been devised to measure over-education, relying on ISCED categories instead of years of education.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.022
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.039

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.022
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0120.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.072
GPT teacher head0.362
Teacher spread0.289 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2008
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