This paper provides the first available evidence on overeducation/overskilling based on AlmaLaurea data. We focus on … jobs held 5 years after graduation by pre-reform graduates in 2005. Overeducation/overskilling are relatively high - at 11 … demand for skills, one should also reckon the inability of the educational system to provide work-related skills. Moreover …

index (SMI), while traditional measures of undereducation and overeducation are used at the microeconomic level. At the …-level mismatch was arguably favourable for individuals in non-crisis time, decreasing overeducation risk although also increasing the … chances of undereducation, both gauged using the normative measure, but unfavourable during the global financial crisis of …

This paper investigates three dimensions of overeducation: incidence, impact on earnings and possible determinants. The … graduates' career paths. A new measure of overeducation is introduced and it is jointly examined along with other pre … the two different measures of overeducation. Results show that the newly introduced measure can deal with the biases …