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Educational mismatch and firm productivity : do skills, technology and uncertainty matter?

Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; Vermeylen, Guillaume - 2015

The authors provide first evidence on whether the direct relationship between educational mismatch and firm productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data for 1999-2010, they find the existence of a significant, positive (negative)...

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Establishment size and the dispersion of wages : evidence from European countries

Lallemand, Thierry (contributor); … - 2005

We investigate how the wage distribution differs among small and large establishments in four European countries. Findings show that within-establishment wage dispersion rises with size because large employers have a more diverse workforce. They also suggest that screening and monitoring costs...

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Educational and skills mismatches : unravelling their effects on wages across Europe

Cultrera, Loredana; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; … - 2022

This paper is among the firsts to investigate the impact of overeducation and overskilling on workers' wages using a unique pan-European database covering twenty-eight countries for the year 2014, namely the CEDEFOP's European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey. Overall, the results suggest a wage...

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Task-biased changes of employment and remuneration : the case of occupations

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...

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Who is your perfect match? : educational norms, educational mismatch and firm profitability

Kampelmann, Stephan; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; … - 2016

We provide first evidence regarding the direct effect of educational norms and educational mismatch on the bottom line of firms across work environments. To do so, we use rich Belgian linked employer-employee panel data, rely on the methodological approach pioneered by Hellerstein et al. (1999),...

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Moving up the social ladder? : wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries

Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022

As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...

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Unemployment risk and over-indebtedness : a micro-econometric perspective

Du Caju, Philip; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015

We study how unemployment effects the over-indebtedness of households using the new European Household Finance and … household indebtedness in its most severe form. We also examine the role that each country's legal and economic institutions … to country specific results, the role of unemployment varies widely across countries. In Spain, France or Portugal, for …

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