Determinants of Country-Level Employee Overqualification: A Configurational Approach

Abstract

We build on the configurational approach to identify patterns of macro contextual factors leading to high country-level employee overqualification. We differentiate between subjective and objective employee overqualification and establish that each is caused by different configurations of macro factors. We also identify country-level overqualification archetypes and link specific countries with respective archetypes. We find that a country's non-vocational education system is a necessary condition for high objective overqualification, while objective overqualification itself is not a necessary condition for perceived overqualification. We discuss theoretical implications and offer policy implications.

Antecedents of Feedback-Seeking Behavior and Its Conditional Impacts: Applying the Framework of Workplace Entitlement

“…Contrary to our prediction, however, the only significant interaction (CI = [0.04, 0.51]) was found between prevention focus and perceived overqualification, where the main effect was not significant, but not with the promotion focus (CI = [20.14,0.27]). The same inconsistency regarding prevention focus and overqualification will likely involve the concerns about inflows of low wage workers (Nikolovski & Kasˇe, 2022). We further plotted Figure 2 to illustrate the simple slope difference regarding the effect of perceived overqualification under high or low levels of prevention focus ( 6 1 SD).…”