a high employee turnover rate. While the literature on returns to education and overeducation is extensive in developed … education and the overeducation of public sector workers in Trinidad and Tobago. By using the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS …

over-educated with those who are not. The results reveal that overeducation hits the wages of those Ph.D. holders who are …The wage effect of job-education vertical mismatch (i.e. overeducation) has only recently been investigated in the case … mismatched at the mean of the conditional wages distribution. This paper, instead, observes the heterogeneity of the …

Recentered Influence Function. The results reveal that overeducation hits the wages of those Ph.D. holders who are employed in …The wage effect of overeducation has only recently been investigated in the case of Ph.D. holders. The existing … conditional wage distribution. This paper, instead, observes the heterogeneity of the overeducation penalty along the hourly wage …

rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the estimation of the effect of overeducation on earnings. Oaxaca … decomposition techniques are employed to uncover the extent to which the overeducation wage penalty can be attributed to either (i … premium. It is found that asymmetry of information accounts for a significant part of the overeducation wage penalty for …

determinants of overeducation, and can explain the overeducation wage penalty. Using a representative survey of the Polish working … cognitive skills does not change the size and the statistical significance of overeducation wage penalty estimates. My results …