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 …

work of Nicaise (2010) relative to the reservation wage to the case of overeducation, we propose a statistical test to … discriminate between alternative theoretical interpretations of the determinants of overeducation through the Heckman sample … provide the most comprehensive, accurate and reliable assessment of overeducation in the country. The educational mismatch 5 …

This paper contributes to the literature on overeducation by empirically investigating the wage penalty of job …, overeducation, overskilling and dissatisfaction with the use of skills. We find that overeducation and skills dissatisfaction are … report overeducation and skills dissatisfaction experience a particularly high wage penalty. …

The paper investigates whether self-employment represents a way to reduce overeducation and improve labour market … first study to systematically study the nexus between overeducation and self-employment in a comparative framework. Moreover …, the paper tests the robustness of the results by employing two different measures of overeducation, contributing to the …

likelihood of being overeducated than natives (i.e. immigrant overeducation). However, evidence is remarkably scarce when it … comes to the overeducation of second-generation immigrants. Using a matched employer-employee database for Belgium over the … the intergenerational nexus between overeducation and origin among tertiary-educated workers. We show that immigrant …