McGuinness, Seamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2016
rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the estimation of the effect of overeducation on earnings. Oaxaca … decomposition techniques are employed to uncover the extent to which the overeducation wage penalty can be attributed to either (i … premium. It is found that asymmetry of information accounts for a significant part of the overeducation wage penalty for …