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Overeducation

Work and Occupations, 2005
Overeducation has become a topic of increasing interest among social scientists. The reissue of one of the seminal works on overeducation, Ivar Berg’s Education and Jobs, provides an occasion for some observations about the development of this literature.
Val Burris
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Overeducation in the Labour Market

Journal of Economic Surveys, 2006
Abstract.  This paper presents a review of the literature on overeducation. The paper assesses the consistency of overeducation within the context of a number of theoretical frameworks including Human Capital Theory (HCT) and Assignment Theory.
Seamus Mcguinness
exaly   +2 more sources

The Impact of Overeducation and its Measurement [PDF]

open access: possibleSocial Indicators Research, 2006
The central focus of this article is the influence of the applied measure when the impact of overeducation is analyzed. For a database of Flemish school leavers, four alternative measures of overeducation are related to job satisfaction, mobility, training participation and wages.
D. VERHAEST, E. OMEY
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Overeducation and economic mobility

Economics of Education Review
We assess the hypothesis that declining intergenerational economic mobility in Norway is attributable to a rising signaling value of education accompanied by more overeducation particularly among upperclass offspring. We identify five empirical facts that together point in this direction: • The educational earnings premium has risen, but only through ...
Simen Markussen   +2 more
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"Overeducation" in the Labor Market

Journal of Labor Economics, 1991
This article examines the reasons for the observed discrepancy between workers' actual and required levels of schooling and the resulting differences in returns to schooling, "Overeducated" workers are found to be younger and to have lower amounts of on-the-job training than workers with the required level of schooling.
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The Overeducated Russian?

Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 1979
(1979). The Overeducated Russian? Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning: Vol. 11, Education and Work: Two Words or One?, pp. 62-63.
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