There is much disagreement in the literature over the extent to which graduates are mismatched in the labour market and … cast light on these issues, based on data for UK graduates. REFLEX examines the labour market status of graduates five … both education and skill mismatch variables are included together in the model only overskilling reduces job satisfaction …

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 determinants of job-education mismatches and their impact on salaries of …

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 …

hypothesized that horizontal mismatch is more likely among those graduates in degree fields that provide more general skills and …This paper contributes to the scarce literature on the topic of horizontal education-job mismatch in the labor market … for graduates of universities. Field-of-study mismatch or horizontal mismatch occurs when university graduates, trained in …

who can signal their high level of specific skills earn seven to ten percent more than identical students lacking such a … signal. The signal allows workers to find jobs in more productive firms and sectors that better use their skills. The …

genuinely over-educated graduates principally lack non-academic skills such as management and leadership. Additionally, genuine …During the early Nineties the proportion of UK graduates doubled over a very short period of time. This paper … investigates the effect of the expansion on early labour market attainment, focusing on over-education. We define over-education by …

analysis focuses on Italian graduates and refers to the cohort that graduated in 2007 using data from the AlmaLaurea survey on … graduates' career paths. A new measure of overeducation is introduced and it is jointly examined along with other pre …

British Skills and Employment Survey series, we analyse trends in the labour market between 1997/2001 and 2006/2012. The … available in the Additional file 1. We find that the massive influx of graduates into the labour force has been absorbed with no … overeducated graduates increased by 11 log points. Using the British Household Panel Study, we find that the persistence of …

This paper examines the potential role of higher education institutions in reducing labour market mismatch amongst new … graduates. The research suggests that increasing the practical aspects of degree programmes, irrespective of the field of study …, will reduce the incidence of initial mismatch. In terms of routes into the labour market, higher education work placements …

This paper deals with the effects of education-job (mis)match on the earnings of higher education graduates in the … context of higher education expansion and different phases of the economic cycle in the Czech Republic in 2006-2018. It aims … to contribute to knowledge about the effects of education-job (mis)match on earnings in two ways. First, it concentrates …