Educational Imbalance By Region in Colombia : Competing for Salaries or Jobs?

This article deals with the phenomena of over-education, understood as being an excessive imbalance between the educational level reached by an individual and that demanded by the job which such individual may be performing; this is due to limited job demand for qualified people in Colombia. Existing empirical contributions and the debate concerning them are analysed; theories explaining the current educational imbalance are examined and the international and national literature on the topic is reviewed. Some hypotheses are proposed for developing scheme leading to determining an individual's behaviour in the over-education phenomena