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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 …
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overcome the negative consequences of overeducation. This study examines the hypotheses that overeducated workers sort into …, I show that overeducation associates with a higher likelihood of sorting into performance pay jobs and that performance …
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I examine teenage pregnancy in Ghana, focusing on the role and interplay of Ghanaian and English reading skills, formal educational attainment, and adult literacy program participation. Pursuing several alternative identification strategies three main results are established. First, I confirm...
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This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...
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Using a cohort approach, this paper examines educational attainment in Ghana and its potential determinants considering both educational attainment in the formal education system and participation in non-formal education in the form of adult literacy programs. The results indicate an overall...
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Peacetime military service has both positive and negative effects on human capital. While it depreciates academic abilities it also enhances non-cognitive skills. The net effect of conscription is hard to identify due to issues of self-selection, endogenous timing and omitted variables bias. We...
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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. …
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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 …
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a high employee turnover rate. While the literature on returns to education and overeducation is extensive in developed … education and the overeducation of public sector workers in Trinidad and Tobago. By using the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS …
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under scrutiny overeducation is decreasing and undereducation is increasing, indicating that labour market demand is keeping …
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