Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to propose an improved concept of educational mismatch that combines a statistical measure of over- and under-education with the worker's self-assessment of skill utilization. The novelty of this measurement approach consists in identifying the vertical...

This paper proposes an improved concept of educational mismatch that combines a statistical measure of over- and undereducation with the worker's self-assessment of skill utilization. In that way, we account for worker heterogeneity in skills whose omission may generate biased estimates of the...

Using two periods' panel data from the Swiss Graduate Survey, this study examines the incidence and wage effects of overeducation. Contrary to most prior research, we account for graduate heterogeneity in perceived skills mismatch when measuring overeducation and correct for potential omitted...