of eastern and western German PhD graduates who completed their dissertations between 1995 and 2010. We estimate the … PhD graduates and their place of birth collected from data on PhD dissertations in Germany with data from administrative … of eastern and western German PhD graduates. Our findings show that labor market success is affected neither by being …

relationship between overeducation, earnings and job satisfaction among graduates in China. We find consistent evidence, across … multiple measures of overeducation, of wage and job satisfaction penalties that are not explained by personal and work … reduces the size and, in many cases, removes the statistical significance of overeducation penalties, aligned to the …

graduates' career paths. A new measure of overeducation is introduced and it is jointly examined along with other pre …This paper investigates three dimensions of overeducation: incidence, impact on earnings and possible determinants. The … analysis focuses on Italian graduates and refers to the cohort that graduated in 2007 using data from the AlmaLaurea survey on …

This paper aims to survey the theoretical and empirical literature on cross-country differences in overeducation. While …-side explanation of overeducation is justified in Western Europe, which would be also confirmed by circumstantial evidence coming from … the recent literature. Nonetheless, overeducation may also turn to be positive in the long run if the expansion of the …

university graduates using comprehensive and representative national data for Russia. The study is based in graduates' assessment … and statistical analyses. We find that one-third of graduates in Russia work in a job that is not related to their field … of study. Moreover, graduates from fields that either generate more general human capital (social sciences, business, law …

, underemployment, wages, the graduate wage premium and the penalty for underemployment. The supply of tertiary graduates increased …, not ubiquitous and nonconvergent. Underemployment was spreading, though at a modest rate; this rise was convergent but not … ubiquitous. The rise was most substantial in Slovenia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Italy and Greece. Graduates' real …