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under scrutiny overeducation is decreasing and undereducation is increasing, indicating that labour market demand is keeping … mismatch, this study analyses the short and medium-term effects of over- and undereducation on the wages of newly hired workers …
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In this study, for the first time, to our knowledge, we use the propensity score matching algorithm to estimate the probability to remain 'stuck in the status-quo ante' across generations in Egypt. We use repeated cross-sectional data relative to a 20-year period from 1998 to 2018 to build...
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overcome the negative consequences of overeducation. This study examines the hypotheses that overeducated workers sort into …, I show that overeducation associates with a higher likelihood of sorting into performance pay jobs and that performance …
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This paper is the first to examine whether and how overeducation and overskilling, considered separately and in … contracts. Our results, based on a unique pan-European database covering 28 countries in 2014, show that overeducation and …
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likelihood of being overeducated than natives (i.e. immigrant overeducation). However, evidence is remarkably scarce when it … comes to the overeducation of second-generation immigrants. Using a matched employer-employee database for Belgium over the … the intergenerational nexus between overeducation and origin among tertiary-educated workers. We show that immigrant …
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a high employee turnover rate. While the literature on returns to education and overeducation is extensive in developed … education and the overeducation of public sector workers in Trinidad and Tobago. By using the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS …
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The wage effect of overeducation has only recently been investigated in the case of Ph.D. holders. The existing … conditional wage distribution. This paper, instead, observes the heterogeneity of the overeducation penalty along the hourly wage … Recentered Influence Function. The results reveal that overeducation hits the wages of those Ph.D. holders who are employed in …
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The paper investigates whether self-employment represents a way to reduce overeducation and improve labour market … first study to systematically study the nexus between overeducation and self-employment in a comparative framework. Moreover …, the paper tests the robustness of the results by employing two different measures of overeducation, contributing to the …
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This paper contributes to the literature on overeducation by empirically investigating the wage penalty of job …, overeducation, overskilling and dissatisfaction with the use of skills. We find that overeducation and skills dissatisfaction are … report overeducation and skills dissatisfaction experience a particularly high wage penalty. …
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Purpose – There is a long period from completing studies to finding a permanent or temporary (but at least satisfactory) job in all European countries, especially in Mediterranean countries, including Italy. This paper aims to study the determinants of this duration and measure them, for the...
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