This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education … (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized … independent of the measure of the usual or reference level of education used in the analyses. -- Immigrants ; skill ; schooling …

/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the …

uses the Overeducation/Required education/Undereducation framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition developed by Chiswick … immigrants' human capital, and under-education to favourable selection in immigration. The results show that immigrants have a … lower payoff to schooling because of the different effects under-education and over-education have on their earnings. The …

paper uses the Over-education/ Required education/Under-education specification of the earnings equation to explore the … years of under-education. A set of predictions is presented to assess the relative importance of these channels, and the … over-education channel is shown to be the more influential factor. This channel is linked to greater positive selection in …

high-skilled adult male native-born workers are also presented for comparison purposes. The results show that over-education … is widespread in the high-skilled US labor market, both for immigrants and the native born. The extent of over-education …. Indeed, in the first 10 to 20 years in the US years of over-education among high-skilled workers have a negative effect on …

-Under-Required education approach to occupations, a new decomposition technique developed especially for this approach, and data from the 2000 …" (occupational norm) level of education, but experience a smaller negative effect of years of undereducation, and to a lesser extent …

uses the Overeducation/Required education/Undereducation framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition developed by Chiswick … immigrants' human capital, and under-education to favourable selection in immigration. The results show that immigrants have a … lower payoff to schooling because of the different effects under-education and over-education have on their earnings. The …

This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education … (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized … independent of the measure of the usual or reference level of education used in the analyses …

paper uses the Over-education/ Required education/Under-education specification of the earnings equation to explore the … years of under-education. A set of predictions is presented to assess the relative importance of these channels, and the … over-education channel is shown to be the more influential factor. This channel is linked to greater positive selection in …