can you have too many highly educated people?

[1983janneman]

I have an unemployment rate of 3%. This is not because I want it. I would rather have them working in my factories. Furthermore, I can't really figure out why I have unemployed people.

it's not the kindergartens, the school.
out of 45 thousand inhabitants I have 20 thousand highly educated people. The stupid thing is that a small village that has no access to the university has no unemployed.

Hence my question. Is this perhaps because I have too many highly educated people?

[joeball123]

No. College-educated citizens will preferentially fill worker slots that require a college education, but they'll still take jobs that only require a basic education if that's what's available.

Most likely you have some kind of transportation problem - too long between buses, too few or too small buses for the number of people you need to move, residential buildings that don't have footpath access to transit service, 'worker'-role citizens blocked from accessing transit services by a backlog of citizens waiting for transport with a 'passenger' or 'student' role, et cetera.

[Silent_Shadow]

University educated workers can fill any job, but they seem to consume 50% more electronics than only basic educated workers do.

[1983janneman]

thnx for the information.... I still wonder why i do have unaployment there are so many busses that the station almost can't handle and the trains.. i have them every few sec in the station.... and they are nevver fully loaded.

this gonna be a nightmere to figere out the problem

[1983janneman]

maybe is this some thing for the "Most annoying defects II" discusion

[Delle(DK)]

regarding you small ciity that have no workers.
try and click the house in the city and see if you by accident have allowed higher educated people to live there OR if anyone can move in to the buildings.

regarding to many higher educated. No you cannot have to many, just remember they take longer to educate so they cannot work while they study so you wate some years of their lifetime studying.. OR maybe im wrong about that.
I am not 100% sure about this, but i asume that higher eduated people are more effective/productive and their education level give them a little boost.
It would be interesting to know if there is a difference.

[whisper]

I would not consider 3% unemployment a problem to be solved. When workers go to a bus or train platform and time out before getting picked up, that's some unemployment right there, and you're always going to have a little unless buses and trains are constantly emptying out the stations completely. In that scenario you don't have any free labor for one-off things like construction, and it's a hassle. 5-10% unemployment is ideal IMO.

[Elessar_warrior]

3% is not an issue. You can see the reason if you hover with the mouse over the unemployment number.

[kiky]

you could use overlays to figgure who was unemployed yesterday. if there are evenly distributed workers here and there it is most likely kindergardens, if it is one area only i would suggest to doublecheck transportation there.

[1983janneman]

Originally posted by Elessar_warrior:

3% is not an issue. You can see the reason if you hover with the mouse over the unemployment number.

hmm intresting. I did not now that. im gonna take a look at that. thnx for the information

[1983janneman]

every one else also thnx for your reactions/advise.

[1983janneman]

Originally posted by whisper:

I would not consider 3% unemployment a problem to be solved. When workers go to a bus or train platform and time out before getting picked up, that's some unemployment right there, and you're always going to have a little unless buses and trains are constantly emptying out the stations completely. In that scenario you don't have any free labor for one-off things like construction, and it's a hassle. 5-10% unemployment is ideal IMO.

It's indeed not problem for now. Unless the unenploymend grows when i grow the city. that whas where i whas afraid of. And for the construction office. they will pic some one up who otherwise will go to the factory. I rather have have them work some where when the construction office dont need them :-)

[Erei]

If the workers can't find work for some time, they'll move from where they are waiting to go another waiting place. For example, they wait at the bus stop, but no bus come. So they move and wait to the nearby train station.
For construction office I rarely use dedicated bus stop. I picvk workers off the place they are waiting anyway for work. Stealing them from whaetver factory they are working for.
Except for heli construction office, since they use dedicated heliport.

Unemployement is nearly unavoidable. It's next to impossible to get everyone to work. Someone, somewhere, will wait at a bust stop perfectly between 2 busses and go home without a job.
It's not too much of an issue, your soviet republic is a perfect soviet utopia and people don't get paid. They get everything they need for free. It's only a few people that could work but don't.

[Silent_Shadow]

Originally posted by Erei:

Unemployement is nearly unavoidable. It's next to impossible to get everyone to work. Someone, somewhere, will wait at a bust stop perfectly between 2 busses and go home without a job.

Nah, it can be solved; it just usually isn't worth it.

[Zentra]

I am out on a limb here. I cannot back any of this up.. It is just what I think I know and my gut feeling.
1. 3% unemployment is perfectly fine. smaller, and you will be experiencing shortages in your workforce. (especially incidental workers) Remember, you do need some who are idle just to cover where you have shortages. Also, VERY IMPORTANT to have an idle amount for construction/repair/demolition crews as they are needed otherwise they will draw from your needed workers.
2. It seems to me that when you do not have enough housing, some adult children will linger in the household, add to the pop counts, but not sure what else they do. Unemployment? You can witness this by counting all the capacity of your housing and seeing that it does not always match. Build some large buildings when you are fat like that and you can suddenly find a few hundred extra people you did not realize you suddenly pouring over into them. I have a strong feeling that this population is counted in a few ways.. but not necessarily for positive results. I think they contribute to negatives without adding any positives other than being available to you. (IMO, these are more worrisome than 3% unemployment)

(I wonder if anyone really knows all the impacts they have?)

[ополоченец]

I have 80% of workers highly educated and there is no signs of unemployment from that.