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Overeducation and skill endowments : the role of school achievement and vocational training quality

Büchel, Felix; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias - 2001

Thurow's job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of employees. As yet, only rudimentary evidence has been furnished to confirm this relationship. In the present paper, we test the theory in a more sophisticated manner, by means of a more...

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Successful apprenticeship-to-work transitions : on the long-term change in significance of the German school-leaving certificate

Büchel, Felix - 2002

The quality of labor-market entry achieved by newly qualified apprentices in West Germany is analyzed from 1948 to 1992 …

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Successful Apprenticeship-to-Work Transitions : On the Long-Term Change in Significance of the German School-Leaving Certificate

Büchel, Felix - 2021

The quality of labor-market entry achieved by newly qualified apprentices in West Germany is analyzed from 1948 to 1992 …

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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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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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Overeducation, performance pay and wages : evidence from Germany

Baktash, Mehrzad B. - 2023

Overeducated workers are more productive and have higher wages in comparison to their adequately educated coworkers in the same jobs. However, they face a series of challenges in the labor market, including lower wages in comparison to their similarly educated peers who are in correctly matched...

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Overeducation, performance pay and wages : evidence from Germany

Baktash, Mehrzad B. - 2023

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Overeducation and economic mobility

Markussen, Simen; Nareklishvili, Maria; Røed, Knut - 2024

We assess the hypothesis that declining intergenerational economic mobility in Norway is attributable to a rising signaling value of education accompanied by more overeducation particularly among upperclass offspring. We identify five empirical facts that together point in this direction: •...

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Regional Disparities in Europe

Balakrishnan, Ravi; Ebeke, Christian; Firat, Melih; … - 2022

pandemic might accelerate the automation of jobs across Europe, something which often happens following recessions. While …

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Skill shortages and skill mismatch in Europe : a review of the literature

Brunello, Giorgio; Wruuck, Patricia - 2019

quality jobs. For Europe at large, persistent skill gaps and mismatches come at economic and social costs. This paper reviews … the recent economic literature on skill mismatch and skill shortages with a focus on Europe a focus on Europe. …

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