Most papers dealing with individual overeducation risks focus on labour supply characteristics and workers behaviour … analyse the influence of both demand and supply factors on educational mismatch in a set of ten European countries. Our …-country and gender differences have been identified in the way the demand/supply factors operate. All this calls for the fine …

of overeducation and undereducation. Workers with more education than required for their jobs are observed to suffer wage … predicts a wage penalty for overeducation and a wage reward for undereducation, and further predicts that the wage penalty will …

The aim of this study is to assess the effect of informal employment on the occurrence of overeducation in developing … countries, focusing on the specific case of the DRC. Using employment data, we determine the incidence of overeducation and we … isolate the role of informal employment as a determinant of overeducation. To measure overeducation, we mainly use the …

under scrutiny overeducation is decreasing and undereducation is increasing, indicating that labour market demand is keeping … mismatch, this study analyses the short and medium-term effects of over- and undereducation on the wages of newly hired workers …

By making use of Duncan & Hoffman's empirical model, the economic returns to overeducation and undereducation are … education. Returns to overeducation are positive but smaller than those to required education. Years of undereducation result in … education, and the estimated coefficients of undereducation are non-significant for many countries. The results also suggest …

of overeducation and undereducation. Workers with more education than required for their jobs are observed to suffer wage … predicts a wage penalty for overeducation and a wage reward for undereducation, and further predicts that the wage penalty will …

under scrutiny overeducation is decreasing and undereducation is increasing, indicating that labour market demand is keeping … mismatch, this study analyses the short and medium-term effects of over- and undereducation on the wages of newly hired workers …

of overeducation and undereducation. Workers with more education than required for their jobs are observed to suffer wage … predicts a wage penalty for overeducation and a wage reward for undereducation, and further predicts that the wage penalty will …