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Evaluations on the Effect of the

Expansive Higher Education Policy

and on the Wage of Overeducated

Workers in Taiwan

Mei Hsu

Professor, Department of Business Administration, National Taiwan Normal
University

Abstract

In this study, we document consequences of the expansive policy of Higher
Education implemented in 1994 in Taiwan and evaluate the policy impacts
on the wage of overeducated workers as compared to their adequate/under

education counterparts. In view of these purposes, using Taiwan’s Manpower
Utilization Survey data from 1999 to 2008, there are two hypothesis tests to
examine to meet study’s goals. The first hypothesis is to investigate if the

relative wage premium between workers with university degree and those with
high-school/two-year-college degree was decreased. In addition, we test if there
is a highly unexplained portion of wage gap between overeducated workers and

high-school/two-year-college counterparts, indicating the discrimination in the
labor market against the less-educated workers. The second hypothesis is to test
if the Higher Education expansion policy impacts the wage of the overeducated

workers negative sharply. After controlling for the industries variables, the