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/BAuA Employment Survey 2006 to compute two different measures of person-to-job matching. A first measure indicates an educational (mis)match, i.e., whether a worker’s attained...