مجید منفرد

Due to the undesirable phenomenon of graduate unemployment and its negative effects, Addressing the issue of how to major choice is of particular importance. The main question of the research is whether the existing signals of choosing a field have been effective in guiding people in accordance with the needs of the labor market? The method of this research is descriptive-analytical; It has been a combination of documentary studies, qualitative statistical analysis (descriptive statistics) and analytical statistics (cross-sectional econometrics). The findings of this study, which was conducted using the data of the years (2006-2018) and controlled by the province and the type of university, show in major choice of volunteers, no attention is paid to the unemployment rate of that field. The non-significance of the unemployment rate coefficient in the above model confirms the hypothesis that the unemployment rate of the field (main independent variable) does not explain the registration rate in that field (dependent variable), Therefore, the unemployment rate of the field in any of the six fields, in any type of universities and in any of the provinces, has no significant effect on the rate of major choice. According to the theoretical and experimental background of research in many other countries, there is a problem and weakness and they have followed solutions for it.

Choosing an education field is individually one of the most important decisions of life; and from the perspective of the educational system and the labor market is an important social-economic process. Due to the effects of this decision, research in domain of modeling, identifying the factors affecting the choice of field and determining the weight of various factors, determining the optimality of choices from the perspective of labor market needs and finally designing and evaluating methods to eliminate mismatch between the field of study and job is very important. But this field of research in Iran is very neglected and lags behind in terms of analytical framework and method. For this reason, the question that what modeling frameworks, research methods, and policies are in place to address the field-job mismatch was selected as the central issue of the research and based on this, previous studies were categorized and analyzed. In general, three macro approaches were identified in modeling the behavior of the field selection; Modeling approach, investing in human capital approach and the mismatch approach. An examination of empirical research based on all three approaches shows that there is always a serious divergence between the outcome of discipline choice behavior and labor market needs. According to the results of meta-analysis, this gap has existed seriously over time and between different countries, even developed countries. Therefore, based on global experiences, various political interventions have been categorized and suggested to solve this problem.