This study analysed the presence and influence of educational mismatch in the service and industry sectors in Spain …, due to the lack of studies of this phenomenon in the latter sector. We also analyse its effect on wages and its role in … improvement of workers' qualifications between sectors in Spain and the lack of studies of this phenomenon in the industrial …

UK or Germany, Spain has experienced between 1995 and 2008 a drop in the returns to medium and tertiary education and … forms of human capital acquisition to relative increases in low-skill wages. We measure the expected returns to schooling … using skill-specific wages bargained in collective agreements at the province-industry level. We argue that those wages are …