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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014368278
determinants of overeducation, and can explain the overeducation wage penalty. Using a representative survey of the Polish working … cognitive skills does not change the size and the statistical significance of overeducation wage penalty estimates. My results …
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The main aim of this study is to analyse the wage returns of Overeducated workers employed in Trinidad and Tobago. To undertake such a study, data from the Continuous Sample Survey of Population (CSSP) for the period 1991-2015 is used to estimate an initial OLS and Quantile regression version of...
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This paper utilizes the self-employed to analyze the observed increase in the educational earnings premium in the 1980's. The paper compares the predictions of the signaling and human capital models in response to an exogenous demand shock such as a skill-biased technological change. Since the...
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incidence, wage effects and state dependence in overeducation among natives and immigrants. In line with previous research we … find a higher incidence and a lower return to overeducation among immigrants indicating that immigrants lose more from … being overeducated. We find a high degree of state dependence in overeducation both among natives and immigrants, but …
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With the rapid increase in educational attainment, technological change, and greater job specialization, decisions regarding human capital investment are no longer exclusively about the quantity of education, but rather the type of education to obtain. The skills and knowledge acquired in...
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The recent literature on overeducation has provided divergent results on whether or not overeducation bears an earnings … penalty. In addition, few studies have considered overeducation among immigrants. This paper uses panel data analyses to …) that are crucial in overeducation analysis. First, we find that immigrants have significantly higher incidence rates of …
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workers born in developed countries benefit from positive wage returns to their years of attained-, required and over-education … results show that the wage return to a year of over-education is positive but lower than that to a year of required education … penalty associated with over-education is higher for workers who: i) have attained tertiary education, ii) are male, iii) have …
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, the estimates show that origin-based differences in over-education wage penalties significantly depend on both …
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