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The Role of Social Capital in Avoiding Over-Education

In post-socialist countries, over qualification is a current and relevant issue, but despite its importance, this topic is not sufficiently addressed in the literature, especially in the post-communist region. Starting from the theory of professional reorientation strategies, one can assume that the lack of social capital may be one of the causes of over qualification. In this study, I will investigate this hypothesis. The analysis of the issue was performed on the database of the “MOZAIK 2001” sociological survey. The long period of time that has lapsed since the collection of the data requires the verification of the assumptions on a much more recent database, namely the Cultural Consumption Barometer 2010. In order to identify the necessary workplace educational training, I used the occupation classification method. Over qualification was determined by comparing the educational training acquired with the occupation performed. Although the importance of relational resources on the labour market is discussed in several studies in the field, the research was only partly able to prove the positive role of social capital in avoiding over qualification.