There is evidence that many college graduates are employed in jobs for which a degree is not required, and in which the …

This paper deals with the effects of education-job (mis)match on the earnings of higher education graduates in the … contextual variables: the share of graduates in the population and the unemployment rate of graduates. The paper is based on … assumptions derived from assignment theory. The authors use data of graduates' self-evaluation collected in national and …

Evidence shows that many college graduates are employed in jobs for which a degree is not required (overeducation), and …

During the early Nineties the proportion of UK graduates doubled over a very short period of time. This paper …. We therefore define three groups of graduates: matched, apparently over-educated and genuinely over-educated; to compare … pre- and post-expansion cohorts of graduates. We find the proportion of over-educated graduates has doubled, even though …