Most papers dealing with individual overeducation risks focus on labour supply characteristics and workers behaviour … analyse the influence of both demand and supply factors on educational mismatch in a set of ten European countries. Our …-country and gender differences have been identified in the way the demand/supply factors operate. All this calls for the fine …

of overeducation and undereducation. Workers with more education than required for their jobs are observed to suffer wage … predicts a wage penalty for overeducation and a wage reward for undereducation, and further predicts that the wage penalty will …

qualifications in excess of those specified for the job (overeducation) and others to have less (undereducation). This paper … empirically models and tests the hypothesis that overeducation and undereducation arise out of a hedonic matching process that …

of overeducation and undereducation. Workers with more education than required for their jobs are observed to suffer wage … wage penalty for overeducation and a wage reward for undereducation. This paper reviews the established empirical …

boom in tertiary education in the last decade. The incidence and the determinants of over- and undereducation vary …

overeducation and a wage reward for undereducation, and further predicts that the wage penalty will exceed the wage reward. This … theoretical foundation for the empirical regularities observed in estimations of wage consequences of overeducation and … undereducation. Workers with more education than required for their jobs are observed to suffer wage penalties relative to workers …

This paper provides the first available evidence on overeducation/overskilling based on AlmaLaurea data. We focus on … jobs held 5 years after graduation by pre-reform graduates in 2005. Overeducation/overskilling are relatively high – at 11 … demand for skills, one should also reckon the inability of the educational system to provide work-related skills. Moreover …

This paper proposes a new statistical measure of the overeducation phenomenon. From Stochastic Production Frontiers … measure reveals an overestimation of the overeducation extent, in comparison to the traditional measures.Following our … that traditional measures overestimate also the wage penalties of overeducation. Thus, we point out that previous studies …