secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a …Even the most egalitarian education systems employ high-stakes tests to regulate the transition from universal … strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving their children's' achievement on these tests, thus reinforcing …

, the estimates show that origin-based differences in over-education wage penalties significantly depend on both … demographics (workers' region of birth, education, and gender) and employer characteristics (firm size and collective bargaining). …

educational attainment and earnings trajectories among Australian-born children of diverse parental migration backgrounds from mid … outcomes, primarily driven by children of parents from select Asian countries. These individuals are more likely to complete …, health, natural and physical sciences, and engineering. Children of NESB immigrant parents initially earn less than their …

-Saharan Africa). This suggests a dominant role for the parents in determining educational opportunities of children. Evidence on the … unobserved family, community, and school factors shared by siblings when growing up together. The estimates suggest that sibling …

criteria matched to 1990 Census data, we examine the effect of family admissions on immigrant education, selfemployment, and … earnings. Of particular relevance to the current debate, we also examine the effect of one of the family-based admission … occupational skills. The earnings growth of immigrants is particularly high in cohorts with relatively high sibling admissions …

, skills needed for the job, other job-specific characteristics and motivations for employment) in order to interpret the over-education …While the literature on the incidence and wage effects of over-education is substantial, specific results for doctoral … have earned in a job corresponding to their level of education. Using a unique pan-European dataset, we rely on two …

This paper is among the firsts to investigate the impact of overeducation and overskilling on workers' wages using a … unique pan-European database covering twenty-eight countries for the year 2014, namely the CEDEFOP's European Skills and Jobs … mismatch with skills mismatch into apparent overeducation and genuine overeducation, the results suggest that the highest wage …

Overeducated workers are more productive and have higher wages in comparison to their adequately educated coworkers in … the same jobs. However, they face a series of challenges in the labor market, including lower wages in comparison to their … performance pay jobs as an adjustment mechanism and that performance pay moderates their wages. Using German Socio-Economic Panel …

allowing us measuring among others the quality of education from high school. This wealth of information is a condition to … standards. Ceteris paribus the parents of the mismatched have lower educational levels according to school tracking. Most … quality of education also correlates to the educational mismatch. We find a nonconditional wage penalty associated to …

-2005. We find that only the HEI graduates obtain a wage premium from skills acquired in the course of formal education. This … experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we construct a job match index based on the usefulness … of the school-provided skills and the relevance of the job performed to the field of study. Then we regress the first …