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Educational and skills mismatches : unravelling their effects on wages across Europe
Cultrera, Loredana; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; … - 2022
This paper is among the firsts to investigate the impact of overeducation and overskilling on workers' wages using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013041426
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Overeducation at a glance : determinants and wage effects of the educational mismatch based on AlmaLaurea data
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2017
This essay delivers two main innovations with respect to the existing literature. First, and foremost, by extending the work of Nicaise (2010) relative to the reservation wage to the case of overeducation, we propose a statistical test to discriminate between alternative theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012109085
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Overeducation, performance pay and wages : evidence from Germany
Baktash, Mehrzad B. - 2023
Overeducated workers are more productive and have higher wages in comparison to their adequately educated coworkers in … the same jobs. However, they face a series of challenges in the labor market, including lower wages in comparison to their … performance pay jobs as an adjustment mechanism and that performance pay moderates their wages. Using German Socio-Economic Panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014342988
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Are school-provided skills useful at work? : results of the Wiles test
Liwiński, Jacek; Pastore, Francesco - 2017
We test for the signalling hypothesis versus human capital theory using the Wiles test (1974) in a country which has experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we construct a job match index based on the usefulness of the school-provided skills and the relevance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012128718
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Wage effects of educational mismatch according toworkers' origin : the role of demographics and firm characteristics
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021
This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a sizeable, detailed matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch, the results show that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012652813
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Wage distributions in origin societies and occupational choices of immigrant generations in the US
Zhan, Crystal - 2020
This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their choices to the occupational wage distribution in their country of origin. The empirical results suggest that individuals are more likely to take up an occupation in the US that was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299919
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The wage premium from foreign language skills
Liwiński, Jacek - 2018
selection to employment and we check for robustness with propensity score matching. We find that the advanced command of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129956
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Overeducation wage penalty among Ph.D. holders : an unconditional quantile regression analysis on Italian data
Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Lubrano Lavadera, Giuseppe; … - 2018
Recentered Influence Function. The results reveal that overeducation hits the wages of those Ph.D. holders who are employed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130684
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The returns to education and the wage effect from overeducation in Trinidad and Tobago : a pseudo-panel approach
Doon, Roshnie; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2024
Having highly educated workers can be beneficial for organizations in terms of innovation and problem-solving capabilities, however when underpaid and underemployed, overeducated workers may experience feelings of frustration and stagnation as they are unable to fully utilize their skills and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014556438
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The more the gloomier : development of informal employment and its effect on wages in Turkey
Duman, Anil; Duman, Alper - 2021
analysis for Turkey and estimate the wage gap between formal and informal sector workers by utilizing the Household Labor Force … distribution. Second, we demonstrate that returns to informality vary significantly across quantiles even after a matching … is extremely small and stable over the years, at the bottom end, the informal sector considerably reduces wages, and the …
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