Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and … creative individuals have a package of practical skills that allows them to thrive in work environments where learning from …

This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …

the graphical analysis show that education and skill mismatch may exhibit opposite relationships with earnings at the … country level. Specifically, over and under-education are found to be positively associated with median earnings, whereas over …This work aims to determine whether the difference between skill and education-based measures of labour mismatch …

, the estimates show that origin-based differences in over-education wage penalties significantly depend on both … demographics (workers' region of birth, education, and gender) and employer characteristics (firm size and collective bargaining). …

Exploiting rich nationally representative longitudinal data from the China Family Panel Studies this paper explores the … relationship between overeducation, earnings and job satisfaction among graduates in China. We find consistent evidence, across … non-cognitive skills as drivers of these penalties. In contrast, controlling for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity …

that an additional year of parental education increases sons' weekly wages by 11.7% after twenty years of experience and …This paper investigates the influence of parental education on the returns to experience of Italian men using a new … it appears the result of both a glass ceiling effect, due to the complementarity between parental education and son …

rate of over-education is 32.3%. The earnings penalty for each year of over-education is 2.5%, which is larger than 0.6% in … international literature on the measured incidence of educational mismatch and its earnings effects. We use a rich Australian …

1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital …This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in …, empirical analyses concentrated directly on education-related differences in earnings. The human capital revolution of the late …

father's education mainly indicates family connections useful for locating a better-paying first job, while mother …Using nationally representative data in China, we find substantial positive partial correlations of both parents …' education with one's wage. In addition, returns to father's education are higher in more monopsonistic and less meritocratic …

This article investigates the extent to which personality traits and cognitive skills can be seen as potential …-age population with well-established measures of cognitive skills and personality traits, I find that accounting for personality and … cognitive skills does not change the size and the statistical significance of overeducation wage penalty estimates. My results …