demographics (workers' region of birth, education, and gender) and employer characteristics (firm size and collective bargaining). …This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a sizeable, detailed matched … that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin, suffer a wage penalty compared to their well-matched former …

We estimate the impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using Belgian …. Firms’ profitability is found to rise when lower educated workers are substituted by higher educated ones. This effect is … found to be more pronounced among younger workers and women. Findings thus suggest that the productivity to wage cost ratio …

workers born in developed countries benefit from positive wage returns to their years of attained-, required and over-education ….e. workers with the same level of education in jobs that match their education). However, the magnitude of this wage penalty is … penalty associated with over-education is higher for workers who: i) have attained tertiary education, ii) are male, iii) have …

/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the misalignment between education-induced productivity gains and … evidence on the moderating roles of age, gender and industry in the relationship between education, productivity and wage costs … costs is more compressed than the education-productivity profile. This effect, robust across industries, is found to …

/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the misalignment between education-induced productivity gains and … impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using rich Belgian linked employer … significant upward-sloping profile between education and wage costs, on the one hand, and education and productivity, on the other …