coupled with unemployment or underemployment among highly educated workers. While a shortage of skills (or under-education) is … definitely a cause of concern, surplus education (or over-education) can also lead to underutilization of skills and further … lower demand for low skill workers. Given this scenario, the paper attempts to measure the incidence and extent of skill …

the depreciation of skills on human capital. The main policy implication of the paper is that overeducation constitutes a … waste of resources. Therefore public authorities should seek to reduce the negative impact of overeducation on the labor …

In this paper we analyse the changes that have taken place on the supply and demand sides of the Swedish labour market … background we then survey some of the findings from earlier studies of the evolution of the demand and supply of skills in Sweden … and of the extent and character of over- and undereducation. We then look specifically at overeducation among Swedish …

The present paper presents the supply and demand trends of rice, wheat, total cereals, pulses, edible oil/oilseeds and … sugar/sugarcane. It provides the demand and supply projections for food items during 2011, 2021 and 2026. These projections … with projections provided by other scholars has also been made in the paper. Subsequently, the future supply-demand gap has …

cash demand falls with an increase in card acceptance. We use detailed payment diary data from Austrian and Canadian … a substantial impact on the demand for cash. The estimate of the consumption elasticity (0.23 and 0.11 for Austria and … counterfactual experiments and quantify the effect of increased card acceptance on the demand for cash. Acceptance reduces the level …