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Educational Mismatch and Gender: A Comparison between Industry and Services in Spain
Economies, 2023 This study analysed the presence and influence of educational mismatch in the service and industry sectors in Spain, due to the lack of studies of this phenomenon in the latter sector. We also analyse its effect on wages and its role in creating a gender
Elena Lasso-Dela-Vega +2 more
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Immigrants’ educational mismatch and the penalty of over-education [PDF]
Education Economics, 2013 This paper analyses immigrants’ educational mismatch and its impact on wages in Spain. The incidence of immigrants’ education-occupation mismatch in the Spanish labour market can largely be explained by the mismatch in the last job held in the home country.
Kalfa, Eleni, Piracha, Matloob
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Education-Occupation Mismatch: Is There an Income Penalty? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 This paper adds to the small literature on the consequences of education-occupation mismatches. It examines the income penalty for field of education-occupation mismatches for men and women with higher education in Sweden and reveals that the penalty for such mismatches is large for both men and women.
Nordin, Martin +2 more
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Migrant Educational Mismatch and the Labour Market [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 Labor market mismatch, particularly ‘over-education’, has a long and controversial history in the labor economics literature. Freeman (1976), who argued that an oversupply of university-educated individuals in the US since the start of 1970s had resulted in the fall in return to education, set the scene for further research on the topic.
Piracha, Matloob, Vadean, Florin
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Overeducation and wages: the role of cognitive skills and personality traits
Baltic Journal of Economics, 2021 This article investigates the extent to which personality traits and cognitive skills can be seen as potential determinants of overeducation, and can explain the overeducation wage penalty.
Marta Palczyńska
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Social Sciences, 2021 Several studies suggest that skill mismatch reduces job satisfaction. To date, research has primarily investigated the impact of subjective skill mismatch; the impact of objective skill mismatch has less commonly been analysed and has generally only ...
Stephan Bischof
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Social Sciences, 2021 Overeducation is indicative of a suboptimal education–job match and is related to several negative consequences for workers. Despite extensive research explaining the overeducation phenomenon, previous studies have not simultaneously analyzed educational
Ana Santiago Vela
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Labor market implications of education mismatch [PDF]
European Economic Review, 2020 This project studies the impact of education mismatch on labor outcomes. Across our sample of OECD countries, there is evidence of mismatch in educational attainment, defined by a lack of assortative matching on ability in terms of educational attainment. Labor market outcomes are not independent of education mismatch.
Carla Varona Cervantes, Russell Cooper
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The determinant of educational mismatch and its correlation to wages
Jurnal Ekonomi Pembangunan, 2020 The mismatch between educational and occupational qualifications is an issue that still frequently occurs in the Indonesian job market. This study aims to sudy the probability of educational mismatch in workers and how it was related to the wages ...
Ferry Maurist Sitorus, Padang Wicaksono
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Skills mismatch and wage inequality: evidence for different countries in Europe
Technological and Economic Development of Economy, 2014 This paper studies the relationship between mismatch between workers’ skills and labour market requirements throughout different European Countries. It reports evidence that in several countries, over-skilled people tend to have a wage penalty and under ...
Marcelo Santos, Tiago Neves Sequeira
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