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Perceived overqualification and performance. The role of the peer-group
Alfes, Kerstin - In: Zeitschrift fuer Personalforschung. German Journal of … 27 (2013) 4, pp. 314-330
Research on the relationship between perceived overqualification and individual performance has examined individual experiences of overqualification in isolation. The present study approaches this relationship in a new light by examining a condition under which perceptions of overqualification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010723577
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Perceived overqualification and performance: The role of the peer group
Alfes, Kerstin - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 27 (2013) 4, pp. 314-330
Research on the relationship between perceived overqualification and individual performance has examined individual experiences of overqualification in isolation. The present study approaches this relationship in a new light by examining a condition under which perceptions of overqualification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307006
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Born abroad and educated here : examining the impacts of education and skill mismatch among immigrant graduates in Europe
McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-30
This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred...
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Much ado about nothing? : the wage penalty of holding a Ph.D. degree but not a Ph.D. job position
Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Lubrano Lavadera, Giuseppe; … - 2017
This paper contributes to the literature on overeducation by empirically investigating the wage penalty of job-education mismatch among Ph.D. holders who completed their studies in Italy; a country where the number of new doctoral recipients has dramatically increased over recent years while...
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The over-education wage penalty among PhD holders : a European perspective
Rycx, François; Santosuosso, Giulia; Vermeylen, Guillaume - 2022
While the literature on the incidence and wage effects of over-education is substantial, specific results for doctoral graduates are surprisingly scarce. This article aims to fill this gap, not only by measuring the prevalence of over-educated PhD holders in Europe (i.e. in EU Member States and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013275384
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The over-education wage penalty among PhD holders : a European perspective
Rycx, François; Santosuosso, Giulia; Vermeylen, Guillaume - 2022
While the literature on the incidence and wage effects of over-education is substantial, specific results for doctoral graduates are surprisingly scarce. This article aims to fill this gap, not only by measuring the prevalence of over-educated PhD holders in Europe (i.e. in EU Member States and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013284869
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The theory of differential overqualifications : does it work?
Büchel, Felix; Battu, Harminder - 2002
The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller labor markets have a higher risk of working in jobs for which they are overqualified. This stems from the problem of dual job search for couples which is much more difficult to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411661
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Educational (mis)match and skill utilization in Germany : assessing the role of worker and job characteristics
Rohrbach-Schmidt, Daniela; Tiemann, Michael - In: Journal for labour market research 49 (2016) 2, pp. 99-119
This paper provides precise figures on the incidence and wage penalties of mismatching in Germany. We use the BIBB … characteristics. We also examine wage penalties for mismatching in Germany, considering a large number of controls for workers and, in … results indicate that large shares of over- or under-educated workers in Germany have skills that correspond to the skill …
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Overqualification of graduates : assessing the role of family background
Erdsiek, Daniel - In: Journal for labour market research 49 (2016) 3, pp. 253-268
Overqualification signals a mismatch between jobs’ educational requirements and workers’ qualifications implying potential productivity losses at the macro and the micro level. This study explores how the family background of German graduates affects the probability to hold a job that does...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635940
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Dynamics of overqualification : evidence from the early career of graduates
Erdsiek, Daniel - 2017
' qualifications and their jobs’ educational requirements. Employing individual-level panel data for Germany, I find that …
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