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Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT The diversification of young people's life trajectories in Europe over the past 50 years has been significantly influenced by more uncertain social and economic conditions, marked by high youth unemployment and increasing job insecurity. In Italy, precariousness has propagated unevenly across regions and social strata, particularly affecting ...
Francesca Tosi +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 481-516, February 2026.Abstract Higher education in the United Kingdom has dramatically expanded in recent decades, along with questions about its effectiveness in preparing graduates for the labour market. With rising tuition fees and increasing competition for graduate jobs, many students opt to study ‘professional’ subjects—fields closely tied to specific professions ...
Sarah Pemberton
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Educational Mismatch and Trade Union Membership
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 24-44, January 2026.ABSTRACT We hypothesize that trade unions assist their members in avoiding situations of educational mismatch. We test this hypothesis using data from the German Socio‐Economic Panel and find that trade union membership is negatively associated with overeducation and positively associated with the likelihood of being educationally matched.
Theresa Geißler, Laszlo Goerke
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Overeducation, Wages and Promotions within the Firm [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003 We analyse data from personnel records of a large firm producing energy and telecommunication and test for the effect of deviations between required and attained education of workers. Required education is measured as hiring standards set by the firm.
Groeneveld, S., Hartog, J.
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Reformulating the Critique of Human Capital Theory
Journal of Economic Surveys, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 1839-1851, December 2025.ABSTRACT Despite criticism, human capital theory (HCT) has remained central for six decades to the teaching and practice of economics. This paper reformulates the critique of HCT, focusing on two aspects that are typically relegated to the margin.
Paul Auerbach, Francis Green
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Education, underemployment and job satisfaction [PDF]
Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences, 2008 Education is an effective vehicle for producing the required skills to maintain economic growth. The benefits of education range from human to economic, social and cultural.
Shujaat Farooq, Usman Ahmed, Rehmat Ali
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Overeducation and Individual Heterogeneity [PDF]
, 2003 In this paper, the efficiency of human capital investments is evaluated in the light of inadequate educational careers and skill obsolescence. Assuming heterogeneous returns to schooling and overeducation we use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings as a continuous treatment effect ...
Maier, Michael +2 more
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Population, Space and Place, Volume 31, Issue 8, November 2025.ABSTRACT In recent decades, as much attention has been paid to the relationship between social factors and health over the life course, a growing body of research has recognised that migratory behaviours and social mobility play a critical role in shaping health in later life.
Tao Zhou, Richard Harris, David Manley
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Comparative Economic ResearchIn this study, we examine the impact of overeducation on wages and wage penalties among 19,000 young men and women aged 18–35 in ten European countries.
Radha Jagannathan, Michael J. Camasso
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Who Pays the Price for Parental Education–Occupation Mismatch? Evidence From an Israeli City
SAGE Open, 2019 In recent years, education–occupation mismatch has become an important area of social research. However, little is known about its impact on the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment.
Yariv Feniger +2 more
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