Educational mismatches and skills: new empirical tests of old hypotheses

Abstract

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The impact of within country heterogeneity in vocational specificity on initial job matches and job status

“…One general result from the literature on wage effects of overqualification is that-holding constant the level of education obtained-overqualified workers experience a wage penalty compared to well-matched workers (Quintini, 2011;Levels et al, 2013). As the results of model M3a clearly show, this is also true for the socioeconomic status of the first job.…”

“…Hartog, 2000;Béduwé and Giret, 2011;Quintini, 2011;Levels et al, 2013). Holding constant the educational attainment level, underqualified workers typically have more demanding jobs than well-matched workers and overqualified workers have less demanding jobs.…”

Overeducation, Skills and Wage Penalty: Evidence for Spain Using PIAAC Data

“…In this case, after accounting for the unobserved heterogeneity, the wage penalty for overeducation is slightly reduced. Using a similar methodology, Chevalier and Lindley The recent study of Levels et al (2013) also includes individuals' skill level in the analysis using PIAAC data. They analyse the effect of workers' skills level on the effect of educational mismatches derived…”

A comparison of educational mismatches across Europe

“…Expert analyses have been developing mainly in the USA within the traditional O*NET (occupational information network) programme. It provides updated information about hundreds of occupations listed by occupation experts covering approximately 97% of the occupations on the US labour market [18]. A job analysis conducted by experts brings the best results [9].…”

“…To present the current situation not only in the Czech Republic, but also throughout Europe, researchers use several surveys such as the international survey Refl ex, the ESS (European Social Survey), the ISSP (International Social Survey Programme) and the VŠPS (Selected Survey of Labour Force) of PedF UK and its international counterpart, the LFS (Labour Force Survey) [15]. The latest data used for making an analysis of overeducation originate from the PIAAC 2013 survey (Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies), collected by the OECD in 24 highly industrialized countries (the results are introduced later in this paper based on an analysis of [18].…”