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How Relevant is Job Mismatch for German Graduates?

Berlingieri, Francesco - 2012

to exhibit lower complexity and creativity requirements but to be more monotone than matching jobs. Furthermore, we …

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Career paths of PhD graduates in Eastern and Western Germany : same qualification, same labor market outcomes?

Rehs, Andreas; Fuchs, Michaela - 2020

region where the degree was earned, and the place of work. Eastern Germany serves as an interesting showcase in light of the … ongoing debate surrounding the underrepresentation of eastern Germans in top positions in Germany. We examine the career paths … PhD graduates and their place of birth collected from data on PhD dissertations in Germany with data from administrative …

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The boom in university graduates and the risk of underemployment : better information on university quality may reduce underemployment and overeducation in developing countries

Yamada, Gustavo - 2015

, underemployment, and overeducation of professionals. Whether governments should regulate the quantity or quality of university …

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Overeducation and Mismatch in the Labor Market

Leuven, Edwin - 2011

This paper surveys the economics literature on overeducation. The original motivation to study this topic were reports that the strong increase in the number of college graduates in the early 1970s in the US led to a decrease in the returns to college education. We argue that Duncan and...

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Job Mismatch and Salary Among Economics and Business Graduates

Robst, John - 2012

The purpose of this paper was to compare employment outcomes for individuals who majored in economics and business administration. Economics majors were more likely to work in a job unrelated to the degree field than business administration majors. Degree mismatch was the result of career...

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Overeducation and Overskilling in the Earlier Careers of Ph.D. Graduates : Does International Migration Reduce Labor Market Mismatch?

Ghosh, Sucharita - 2019

This paper examines the effect of international mobility on the education-job mismatch and skill-mismatch of Ph.D. graduates. Using individual-level data from two waves of surveys of PhD recipients in Italy conducted by the Italian National Institute of Statistics, we find that migration to...

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The impact of horizontal job-education mismatches on the earnings of recent university graduates in Russia

Rudakov, Victor; Figueiredo, Hugo; Teixeira, Pedro; … - 2019

This paper analyses the determinants and consequences of horizontal job-education mismatches, an increasingly relevant topic in debates about education and labour markets. This issue reflects the articulation of educational fields and occupations in the labour market. We evaluate the...

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The career prospects of overeducated Americans

Clark, Brian; Joubert, Clément; Maurel, Arnaud - 2014

In this paper we analyze career dynamics for the large share of U.S. workers who have more schooling than their peers in the same occupation. We use data from the NLSY79 combined with the CPS to analyze transitions into and out of overeducated employment, together with the corresponding effects...

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Overeducation, skill mismatches, and labor market outcomes for college graduates : overskilling or overskilling plus overeducation are more likely than overeducation alone to harm employee welfare

Sloane, Peter J. - 2014

There is evidence that many college graduates are employed in jobs for which a degree is not required, and in which the skills they learned in college are not being fully used. Most of the literature on educational or skill mismatch is based on cross-sectional data, providing information at just...

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Wage effects of educational mismatch according to workers' origin: the role of demographics and firm characteristics

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021

This paper examines the influence of educational mismatch on wages according to workers' region of birth, taking advantage of our access to rich matched employer-employee data for the Belgian private sector for the period 1999-2010. Using a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch...

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