might operate beyond the mechanisms previously analysed. I explore how the family background of university graduates affects …, social capital, financial capital, and aspiration are incorporated into the empirical analysis. Graduates from families with …

overqualification is highly persistent among tertiary graduates over the first ten years of their career cycle. Accounting for …

In this study, we examine the incidence and direct consequences of job mismatch for German graduates. Beyond measuring … competences. The results indicate that a substantial share of graduates underutilizes own skills in the job. The rate of … investigate to what extent jobs of matched graduates differ from jobs held by mismatched graduates. Jobs of the latter are found …

Graduates from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are usually found to have higher wages and a … characteristics, such as ability. Using data on German male graduates we show that unobserved heterogeneity indeed matters for … differences in the risk of overqualification and wages when STEM graduates are compared to the Business & Law group, while it …

of internal job matching flows in Germany. Estimates from a nested logit model of destination choice suggest that spatial … job matching patterns by high-skilled individuals are mainly driven by interregional income differentials, while … unemployment. Simulating job matching patterns in a scenario of economic convergence between eastern and western Germany …

based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low …