/BAuA Employment Survey 2006 to compute two different measures of person-to-job matching. A first measure indicates an educational (mis)match …. Second, - and different from most other studies-we observe a skill (mis)match that reflects the correspondence between the … mismatch differ between these measures and explain the probability of being (mis)matched by different sets of worker and job …

overcome the negative consequences of overeducation. This study examines the hypotheses that overeducated workers sort into …, I show that overeducation associates with a higher likelihood of sorting into performance pay jobs and that performance …

overcome the negative consequences of overeducation. This study examines the hypotheses that overeducated workers sort into …, I show that overeducation associates with a higher likelihood of sorting into performance pay jobs and that performance …

Sicherman-Galor hypothesis, which predicts that overeducation is a temporary condition from a worker's perspective associated …

skills they learned in college are not being fully used. Most of the literature on educational or skill mismatch is based on … cross-sectional data, providing information at just one point in time. Drawing meaningful conclusions about mismatch, its …

incidence of overeducation and the extent to which they are relevant in the case of migrant workers. Skill mismatch is found to …This article unravels the migrants' incidence of skill mismatch taking into consideration different migration flows …. Mismatch is the situation in which workers have jobs for which lower skill levels are required compared to their education. We …

overeducation implying a loss of human capital for individuals and ineffective use of resources for the economy. To make informed … decisions, policymakers need to understand how different types of workers and firms are affected by overeducation and skill …

rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the estimation of the effect of overeducation on earnings. Oaxaca … decomposition techniques are employed to uncover the extent to which the overeducation wage penalty can be attributed to either (i … premium. It is found that asymmetry of information accounts for a significant part of the overeducation wage penalty for …

The paper investigates whether self-employment represents a way to reduce overeducation and improve labour market … first study to systematically study the nexus between overeducation and self-employment in a comparative framework. Moreover …, the paper tests the robustness of the results by employing two different measures of overeducation, contributing to the …

, together with the corresponding effects on wages. Overeducation is a fairly persistent phenomenon at the aggregate and … individual levels, with 66% of workers remaining overeducated after 1 year. Overeducation is not just more common but also more … persistent among blacks and low-AFQT individuals. Further, the hazard rate out of overeducation drops by about 60% during the …