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, 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 …
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the depreciation of skills on human capital. The main policy implication of the paper is that overeducation constitutes a … waste of resources. Therefore public authorities should seek to reduce the negative impact of overeducation on the labor …
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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 …
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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 …
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This paper provides precise figures on the incidence and wage penalties of mismatching in Germany. We use the BIBB/BAuA Employment Survey 2006 to compute two different measures of person-to-job matching. A first measure indicates an educational (mis)match, i.e., whether a worker’s attained...
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the depreciation of skills on human capital. The main policy implication of the paper is that overeducation constitutes a … waste of resources. Therefore public authorities should seek to reduce the negative impact of overeducation on the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687794
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014368278
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014342988
As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis contributes to a small yet rapidly developing body of literature that uses subjective expectation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283119
Given a severe nurse shortage in Switzerland, this paper investigates Swiss students choice for nursing college education and the impact of their ex ante wage expectations on college enrolment. The analysis contributes to a small developing literature that uses subjective wage expectation data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488507