Employment of Graduates in the Fields of Teacher Education and Education Science in Vietnam
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Abstract
Using data from the Labour Force Survey in 2018, 2019, and 2020, this paper is the first to analyze the employment issues of workers with university degrees in the fields of teacher education and education science in Vietnam. The results show that about 90% of the workers employed in the public sector and about 85% doing the jobs matched their field of study. However, the proportion of workers with matched jobs is much lower for those without social insurance and without a formal labor contract. The percentage of workers having social insurance and formal labor contracts is higher for those with mismatched jobs (about 98%) than for those with matched jobs (about 90%). The results of probit regression reveal that age and job sectors have a significant impact on the probability of workers having social insurance and formal labor contracts, while job mismatch has a negligible effect on the probability of workers having formal labor contracts.
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