Mavromaras, Kostas G.; McGuinness, Séamus; O'Leary, Nigel - 2007
This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses … conventional overeducation variables can. The paper finds that the prevalence of overskilling decreases with education at least for … Australia, but the wage penalty associated with overskilling increases with education. Although the general patterns of …