Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to propose an improved concept of educational mismatch that combines a statistical measure of over- and under-education with the worker's self-assessment of skill utilization. The novelty of this measurement approach consists in identifying the vertical...

Using two periods' panel data from the Swiss Graduate Survey, this study examines the incidence and wage effects of overeducation. Contrary to most prior research, we account for graduate heterogeneity in perceived skills mismatch when measuring overeducation and correct for potential omitted...

This paper measures the effect of a long-term career interruption on wages after re-employment. Using data from the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) and a fixed effects estimation method allows us to account for time-constant unobserved heterogeneity. We find a significant wage penalty of about 7% in...