Over-education and earnings: where are we, where should we go?

Hartog, Joop

doi:10.1016/s0272-7757(99)00050-3

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“…Good present job offers survive, leading to high job levels for high tenure. But good outside offers draw workers away, generating high job levels for low tenures (Hartog, 2000a;Garen 1988). Overeducation and its earnings consequences cannot unambiguously be related to selective mobility.…”

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Overeducation, wages and promotions within the firm

Groeneveld

Hartog

2004

Labour Economics

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Section: Oru As a Firm Wage Effect?mentioning

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Overeducation, wages and promotions within the firm

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Hartog

2004

Labour Economics

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“…Additionally, it is widely believed that, when comparing the same occupation, the overeducated receives significantly lower salaries when compared with those with adequate education. For those with the same education level, workers who are overeducated receive higher salaries than those with adequate education [10], [11].…”

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“…This method allows the study subjects to assess whether they are overeducated or undereducated in terms of the relation between the education level required for their work and their own qualifications; this method is also known as the WA method. Objective measurement methods are usually based on surveys on the present state of human resources and are divided into four types: one is the job analysis method [11], which is otherwise known as the JA method; the education level required for the job is decided based on an analysis of the job specifications. Another type is the modal method; the education level required for the job is decided based on the education level of the majority.…”

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The Expansion of Higher Education and Overeducation in Taiwan: Evidence from 1997 to 2007

Xiao¹

2015

IJIET

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Abstrac-Higher education in Taiwan underwent rapid development over the past two decades. This research adopted the resultsof the survey on the present state of human resources conducted by the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics to investigate the influence of overeducation on the human resource market. This study incorporated multiple methods of calculating overeducation to investigate the inconsistencies between the results and the explanations for these.Results showed that the rate of overeducation did not show much variation in the past decade according to both the standard deviation method and the modal method and that the findings conformed to the statistical results of past domestic studies. The salary regression model provided a good explanatory effect of overeducation and undereducation, and was conducive to the explanation and analysis of education level effects on salary. The standard deviation method was comparatively more effective than the modal method in calculating the rate of overeducation. This is related to the looser definition of adequate education in the standard deviation method.

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“…In spite of a large number of studies on the issue, there is no uniform definition of over-education (Dolton and Vignoles, 2000;Hartog, 2000) and in many cases the definition used depends on the available data. Each of the several approaches used to measure the degree of mismatch has its own limitations (Note 11).…”

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“…There are basically three approaches: job analysis, the statistical approach, and workers self-assessment. For a description of these methods, see Hartog (2000).…”

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Graduates’ Job Quality after a Higher Education Reform: Evidence Regarding Second Level Graduates from a University in Southern Italy

Lombardo¹,

Passarelli

2011

RAE

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Generally graduates have more opportunity of finding a job than undergraduates. However a degree does not always lead to the expected labour market outcomes in terms of job quality. Italian graduates are not an exception in this regard. A University Reform (DM 509/99), implemented in the academic year 2001/2002, introduced a switch from a one-level university education system with just one type of degree to a two-level structure: the first lasting three years and the second another two additional years. 2010 is the first year for which data on labour market outcomes are available for second level graduates at three years after graduation. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the empirical literature by providing evidence of the job quality of graduates from a university located in Southern Italy, an area with structural problems in the labour market. The sample includes all summer session 2007 graduates from the University of Calabria. The quality of jobs at three years after graduation is studied in terms of type of contract, educational match and wage. More specifically, the paper aims to identify determinants of the contract type, educational match and wage. Our findings suggest that field of study is the main determinant of job quality. In particular, graduates in Engineering and in Pharmacy, are more likely to find a stable, well matched, and better paid job, with respect to graduates in other fields.

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Over-education and earnings: where are we, where should we go?

Cited by 838 publications

References 32 publications

Overeducation, wages and promotions within the firm

Overeducation, wages and promotions within the firm

The Expansion of Higher Education and Overeducation in Taiwan: Evidence from 1997 to 2007

Graduates’ Job Quality after a Higher Education Reform: Evidence Regarding Second Level Graduates from a University in Southern Italy

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