This study investigates the incidence of over-education amongst recent Australian bachelor degree graduates and its effect on their earnings. We find that between 24% and 37% of graduates were over-educated shortly after course completion, with over-education most common amongst young females...

Most studies of the returns to higher education ignore the effects of taxation on the distribution of the costs and benifits of education. In an analysis of hiogher education in Fiji, this study incorporates the tax sysyem in a model of the returns to education and finds that, rather than...