difficulties to find occupations that match their higher educational background, skills and educational investments. This scenario … university education among individuals with lower academic skills. …

I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and … from the experience of unemployment. This result partially compensates the fact that more education reduces the incidence … of unemployment: unemployment is less likely among the better educated, but its occurrence has more sizeable effects on …

labour market outcomes. Using relevant data on tasks and skill needs in jobs, collected by the European skills and jobs … skewed towards routine jobs with low demand for transversal and social skills. The risk of job displacement by machines is …

As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals …-resource managers to choose. We find that signals in all three studied domains - cognitive skills, social skills, and maturity - have a …. While GPAs and social skills are significant for both genders, males are particularly rewarded for maturity and females for …

unique pan-European database covering twenty-eight countries for the year 2014, namely the CEDEFOP's European Skills and Jobs … mismatch with skills mismatch into apparent overeducation and genuine overeducation, the results suggest that the highest wage …