Effectiveness of Vocational Training on Minimizing School—Job Mismatch
摘要
Job mismatch is one of the big issues regarding the labor market in Indonesia. The Mismatch is defined as the unsuitable job level and type for formal education output. According to research, the mismatch in Indonesia has been getting bigger in some sectors for the last 5 years. This problem can be caused by the rapid transformation of the demand side and/or unadaptive in supply-side skill facing to the transformation. Government policies try to minimize the mismatch in various ways, and one of the policies is vocational training. This research aims to determine whether vocational training can minimize the school-job mismatch. Individual data of the labor force from the National Labor Force Survey (Sakernas) is used to inspect this objective. As Sakernas held twice a year, in February and August, we use the August publication data because of the size of sample survey data. This research analyzes a quantitative logit regression model with the probability of mismatch as the dependent variable. The mismatch between school and job measures using vertical mismatch with vocational training as the dummy variable.