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Skill mismatch and returns to education in manufacturing : a case of India's textile and clothing industry
Kukreja, Prateek - 2018
coupled with unemployment or underemployment among highly educated workers. While a shortage of skills (or under-education) is … definitely a cause of concern, surplus education (or over-education) can also lead to underutilization of skills and further … the over-education/required education/undereducation (ORU) models on a cross section dataset of individuals employed (as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011900162
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Educational mismatch and wages in Germany
Bauer, Thomas K. - 1999
heterogeneity when analyzing the labor market effects of over- and undereducation. Using pooled OLS, the estimation results confirm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317477
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Nash bargaining and the wage consequences of educational mismatches
Hartog, Joop; Sattinger, Michael - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010190990
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Educational mismatches of newly hired workers : sort and medium-run effects on wages
Araújo, Isabel; Carneiro, Anabela - 2020
under scrutiny overeducation is decreasing and undereducation is increasing, indicating that labour market demand is keeping … mismatch, this study analyses the short and medium-term effects of over- and undereducation on the wages of newly hired workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286352
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Higher education funding reforms : a comprehensive analysis of educational and labor market outcomes in England
Azmat, Ghazala; Simion, Stefania - 2017
This paper investigates the impact of changes in the funding of higher education in England on students' choices and outcomes. Over the last two decades - through three major reforms in 1998, 2006 and 2012 - undergraduate university education in public universities moved from being free to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738838
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A balancing act at times of austerity : matching the supply and demand for skills in the Greek labour market
Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2014
This paper provides an evidence-based assessment of the current situation prevailing in the Greek market for skills and jobs. The synthesis of available skills intelligence for Greece, the country most severely affected by the global economic crisis of 2008, is crucial as it is currently faced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238208
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The great proletarian cultural revolution, disruptions to education, and the returns to schooling in urban China
Giles, John; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - 2015
This paper provides new evidence on educational disruptions caused by the Cultural Revolution and identifies the returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to education. The return to college is estimated at 49.8% using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498488
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The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian (contributor); Zhu, Yu (contributor) - 2008
This paper reports estimates of the UK “college premium” for young graduates across successive cohorts from large cross section datasets for the UK pooled from 1994 to 2006 - a period when the higher education participation rate increased dramatically. This implies that graduate supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003770228
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The causal effect of education on wages revisited
Dickson, Matt - 2009
This paper estimates the return to education using two alternative instrumental variable estimators: one exploits variation in schooling associated with early smoking behaviour, the other uses the raising of the minimum school leaving age. Each instrument estimates a 'local average treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898128
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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes
Flake, Regina - 2013
This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771160