This study is to estimate the effect of accumulated major-job match with a focus on wage as an indicator of labor market outcomes. We also tried to analyze the long-term vocational experience has on wage. In particular, the stability of the long-term relationship between the job match and income regardless of short-term mismatch in the process of constantly changing careers is analyzed using the results of a recall survey, targeting four-year university graduates of the years 1982, 1992, and 2002.
The result showed that the wage level is high in case they work on job matching with one's major. Also, the higher the level of the match, the higher the wage premium. We found the same pattern from the entire cohort, which has a different career within the labor market. Moreover, even in cases in which separate cohorts and major groups are considered, the long-term matching effect was found significant.