In many developing economies rate of unemployment is increasing with skill accumulation and thereby leading to underemployment. Our paper offers to look at skill formation as a demand side problem not as a traditional supply side problem and also how skill formation or education affects...

This paper develops a model of human capital investment in a frictional labor market with two-sided heterogeneity and liquidity constraints. The model generates underemployment in equilibrium: workers are employed in jobs for which they are over-qualified. Subsidizing education can decrease the...

This paper develops a model of human capital investment in a frictional labor market with two-sided heterogeneity and liquidity constraints. The model generates underemployment in equilibrium: workers are employed in jobs for which they are over-qualified. Subsidizing education can decrease the...