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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 …
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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 …
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By making use of the Duncan&Hoffman model, the paper estimates returns to educational mismatch using comparable microdata for 25 European countries. Our aim is to investigate the extent to which the main empirical regularities produced by other papers on the subject are confirmed by our data...
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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 …
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Since the early 2000s regional enlargement (“regionförstoring”) has become an important objective in the Swedish regional policy. Smaller regions are intended to be functionally integrated into larger neighbours through intensified commuting. This strive is facilitated by the fact that the...
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This paper utilises Australian data to evaluate the effect of firm-provided job training on labour income. It also examines whether training can shed light on the effects of skill-job mismatch. We employ the Heckman selection model to account for selection bias in training as well as work...
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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 …
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boom in tertiary education in the last decade. The incidence and the determinants of over- and undereducation vary …
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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 …
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Our empirical study stems from previous research on the inter-relations between residential status and microeconomic labour market outcomes. It focuses on employees and assesses the a priori ambiguous e-ect of homeownership on job-match quality. We use the French data set of the 1995-2001...
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