mismatch, this study analyses the short and medium-term effects of over- and undereducation on the wages of newly hired workers …. The data show that more than 50 percent of the employed in the private sector in Portugal experienced a job mismatch at … under scrutiny overeducation is decreasing and undereducation is increasing, indicating that labour market demand is keeping …

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 …

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 …

work more hours but are not given the opportunity), three measures of job satisfaction, overeducation and wages. We further …

education mismatch literature. To observe the unconditional partial effects of small changes in wage returns of overeducated …

This paper contributes to the literature on overeducation by empirically investigating the wage penalty of job …-education mismatch among Ph.D. holders who completed their studies in Italy; a country where the number of new doctoral recipients has … cross-sectional micro-data collected in 2009 and rely on different definitions of education-job mismatch such as …

The wage effect of overeducation has only recently been investigated in the case of Ph.D. holders. The existing … conditional wage distribution. This paper, instead, observes the heterogeneity of the overeducation penalty along the hourly wage … Recentered Influence Function. The results reveal that overeducation hits the wages of those Ph.D. holders who are employed in …

This paper is the first to examine whether and how overeducation and overskilling, considered separately and in … contracts. Our results, based on a unique pan-European database covering 28 countries in 2014, show that overeducation and …

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 …

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 …