signaling value of education accompanied by more overeducation particularly among upperclass offspring. We identify five … that the incidence of overeducation has increased. • There is a steep positive social gradient in overeducation …: Overeducation is more frequent and has risen faster among offspring in upper-class families. • There is a steep negative social …

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 …

This paper examines the factors determining variations in spatial rates of overeducation. A quantile regression model … overeducation rates include factors such as labour market risk, financial aid to university students, excess labour demand and … research supports the findings of micro based studies which have found that overeducation is consistent with an assignment …

market) can help to explain the phenomenon of overeducation. For the purposes of this project we obtained special permission … factor in avoiding overeducation: looking for a job on a large labour market increases the probability of finding a suitable …

likelihood of being overeducated than natives (i.e. immigrant overeducation). However, evidence is remarkably scarce when it … comes to the overeducation of second-generation immigrants. Using a matched employer-employee database for Belgium over the … the intergenerational nexus between overeducation and origin among tertiary-educated workers. We show that immigrant …

signaling value of education accompanied by more overeducation particularly among upperclass offspring. We identify five … that the incidence of overeducation has increased. • There is a steep positive social gradient in overeducation …: Overeducation is more frequent and has risen faster among offspring in upper-class families. • There is a steep negative social …

The aim of this study is to assess the effect of informal employment on the occurrence of overeducation in developing … countries, focusing on the specific case of the DRC. Using employment data, we determine the incidence of overeducation and we … isolate the role of informal employment as a determinant of overeducation. To measure overeducation, we mainly use the …

Overeducation refers to the extent to which workers acquired education levels in excess of that required by their jobs …. Low educational level is pointed out as a determinant for the incidence of overeducation, which is usually associated with … overeducation and the type of educational system (public or private education, which have quite different quality levels in Brazil …