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Skill transferability, regret and mobility.

Golsteyn, Bart H. H., Borghans , Lex
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Measuring the Incidence of Over- and Undereducation

Quality and Quantity, 2006
We deploy the unique opportunity of a dataset of Flemish school leavers to measure the incidence of over- and undereducation on the basis of the six applied measures in the literature. The incidence of overeducation in the first job after leaving school ranges from only 8% to 51%, undereducation ranges from 3% to 21%.
Dieter Verhaest, Eddy Omey
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Overeducation, undereducation and the British labour market

Applied Economics, 1999
This paper addresses the issue of overeducation and undereducation using for the first time a British dataset which contains explicit information on the level of required education to enter a job across the generality of occupations. Three key issues within the overeducation literature are addressed.
P J Sloane
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The importance of intergenerational stability for the social origins of undereducation and overeducation

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2023
Only recently have sociologists begun to examine the social origins of educational mismatches in more detail. This research not only repeatedly found, but also investigated why individuals from lower social origin often have a higher level of education than required for their job (overeducation), and why individuals from a higher social origin more ...
Marvin Bürmann
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Undereducation, Motivating Intervention in Rural Schools with MAPPS [PDF]

Proceedings of the First African Conference on Human Computer Interaction, 2016
Many primary school students in rural areas of developing countries perform poorly in national final exams, and therefore, fail to transit to secondary schools. This problem causes undereducation and shortage of skilled manpower in the developing countries.
Hussein Suleman, Audrey Mbogho
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Overeducation and undereducation in Taiwan

Journal of Asian Economics, 2008
Abstract This study analyzes the incidence of overeducation and undereducation and their effects on wages utilizing the data sets for the “Taiwan Social Change Survey” in 1997 and 2002. Our main conclusions are as follows. First of all, the rate of return on excess years of schooling is positive but smaller than that in relation to the required ...
Chia-Yu Hung
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Overeducation and undereducation: Evidence for Portugal

Economics of Education Review, 1997
Abstract Using a unique data set of Portuguese workers, we attempt to contribute additional empirical evidence to the debate on whether or not a discrepancy exists between the educational attainment of workers and the skill requirements of jobs, with the related impact on earnings functions and the returns to education.
B F Kiker
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Over- and undereducation in the UK graduate labour market

Studies in Higher Education, 1998
ABSTRACT The authors examine the apparent underutilisation of the skills of employed graduates. As in the USA, concern has arisen in Britain over the numbers of graduates working in jobs which might be carried out equally well by those with subdegree qualifications.
C. Alpin, J.R. Shackleton, S. Walsh
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Overeducation, undereducation and asymmetric information in occupational mobility

Applied Economics, 2013
Due to short-term asymmetric information, overeducated and undereducated workers are shown to have different optimal strategies in seeking upward occupational mobility into their next positions. Undereducated workers typically have other human capital strengths, but these strengths are not marketable to outsiders.
Stephen Rubb
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