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The regional dimension of overeducation two decades after Poland's accession to the European Union
Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on DevelopmentIn this study, we investigated regional variation in overeducation in Poland almost two decades after its 2004 EU accession. Using microdata from the Labour Force Survey and applying the realized matches method, we found that approximately 20% of workers
Grotkowska Gabriela
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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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Overeducation entre beneficiários de ações afirmativas: evidências em uma universidade pública brasileira [PDF]
Revista de Administração PúblicaResumo O presente estudo tem como objeto analisar o fenômeno da sobreeducação (overeducation) dentre os beneficiários de uma ação afirmativa (AA) de bonificação da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN).
Ana Maria Jerônimo Soares
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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 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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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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臺灣教育社會學研究, 2015 本研究以「臺灣高等教育整合資料庫」2006年畢業的女性大專生為分析對象，研究發現樣本中畢業生自評之過量教育與學非所用的比例分別高達46%與30%，有「教育⎯工作不相稱」情形者不在少數。本研究首先採用區間迴歸模型估算過量教育與學非所用者初進就業市場的薪資效果，在控制學校類型與工作特性之後，過量教育或學非所用兩者的薪資損失相近，約為9%。薪資也隨著過量教育與學用不符程度增加而減少。在控制薪資效果之後，以probit-adapted ordinary least squares（簡稱POLS ...
洪嘉瑜 Chia-Yu Hung +2 more
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Wage Inequality and Unemployment with Overeducation [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006 A skill-biased change in technology can account at once for the changes observed in a number of important variables of the US labour market between 1970 and 1990. These include the increasing inequality in wages, both between and within education groups, and the increase in unemployment at all levels of education.
Mateos-Planas, Xavier +1 more
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