workers born in developed countries benefit from positive wage returns to their years of attained-, required and over-education ….e. workers with the same level of education in jobs that match their education). However, the magnitude of this wage penalty is … penalty associated with over-education is higher for workers who: i) have attained tertiary education, ii) are male, iii) have …

/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the misalignment between education-induced productivity gains and … impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using rich Belgian linked employer … significant upward-sloping profile between education and wage costs, on the one hand, and education and productivity, on the other …

highly skilled workers but does not depend on whether wages are collectively renegotiated at the firm level. -- wage …

2016, our weighted multilevel log-linear regressions first indicate that in Belgium, the overall wage gap between workers … born in developed countries and workers originating from developing countries remains substantial: it reaches 15.7% and 13 …, tenure, education, type of contract, occupation, firm-level collective agreement, firm fixed effects), we find that, whereas …