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The problem of overskilling in Australia and Britain

Mavromaras, Kostas; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Leary, Nigel C.; … - 2007

This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses … Australia, but the wage penalty associated with overskilling increases with education. Although the general patterns of … overskilling (prevalence and penalties) are fairly similar between Australia and Britain, the problem appears to be greater in …

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Job insecurity and future labour market outcomes

McGuinness, Seamus; Wooden, Mark; Hahn, Markus - 2012

This paper uses longitudinal survey data to test the degree to which measures of job insecurity are correlated with changes in labour market status. Three major findings are reported. First, the perceived probability of job loss is only weakly related to both exogenous job separations and...

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Job Insecurity and Future Labour Market Outcomes

McGuinness, Seamus; Wooden, Mark; Hahn, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Overskilling, job insecurity and career mobility

McGuinness, Seamus; Wooden, Mark - 2007

This paper uses longitudinal data from Australia to examine the extent to which overskilling - the extent to which work …

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Overskilling dynamics and education pathways

Mavromaras, Kostas; McGuinness, Seamus; Fok, Yin King - 2009

This paper uses panel data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and the dynamic properties of overskilling among employed individuals. The paper begins by asking whether there is extensive overskilling in the labour market, and whether overskilling differs by education pathway. The...

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Assessing the incidence and wage effects of over-skilling in the Australian labour market

Mavromaras, Kostas; McGuinness, Seamus; Fok, Yin King - 2007

This paper examines the incidence and wage effects of over-skilling within the Australian labour market. It finds that approximately 30 percent of employees believed themselves to be moderately over-skilled and 11 percent believed themselves to be severely over-skilled. The incidence of skills...

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Labour market mismatch among UK graduates: an analysis using REFLEX data

McGuinness, Seamus; Sloane, Peter J. - 2009

There is much disagreement in the literature over the extent to which graduates are mismatched in the labour market and the reasons for this. In this paper we utilise the Flexible Professional in the Knowledge Society (REFLEX) data set to cast light on these issues, based on data for UK...

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The extent of collective bargaining and workplace representation: transitions between states and their determinants ; a comparative analysis of Germany and Great Britain

Addison, John T.; Bryson, Alex; Teixeira, Paulino; … - 2009

Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said, comparatively little is known in any detail of the changing pattern of the institutions of collective bargaining and worker representation in Germany and still less in both countries...

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Slip sliding away: further union decline in Germany and Britain

Addison, John T.; Bryson, Alex; Teixeira, Paulino; … - 2010

This paper presents the first comparative analysis of the decline in collective bargaining in two European countries where that decline has been most pronounced. Using workplace-level data and a common model, we present decompositions of changes in collective bargaining and worker representation...

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The wage impact of trade unions in the UK public and private sectors

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2007

This paper draws attention to an increase in the size of the union membership wage premium in the UK public sector relative to the private sector. We find the public sector membership wage premium is approximately double that in the private sector controlling for a full range of individual, job...

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