过度教育与教育的非经济功能

Overeducation and Non-Economic Functions of Education

本文从教育的非经济功能角度解释过度教育现象。基于教育社会学原理,建立了一个以教育多重功能为假设条件的教育供求模型,发现多重功能条件下均衡教育水平大于单一经济功能的均衡教育水平,两者的差异构成以要素配置效率标准来衡量的过度教育。利用近年来我国省际面板数据对理论推论进行检验,结果发现教育水平对经济增长没有显著影响,但是经济增长明显地促进了教育水平的提高,从而支持了理论分析的结论。

This paper explains overeducation from a perspective of non-economic functions of education.Based on principles of sociology of education,a supply-demand model of multi-function education is developed.The mathematical analysis results show that the equilibrium education level of multi-function model is higher than that of single-function model,and the difference between the two equilibrium levels is just the overeducation.The results of regressive analysis implies that,at the province level in China from 2002 to 2010,education has no effective influence on,but is effectively influenced by economic growth,which is consistent with the conclusion of theoretical analysis.