Over-Education in Multilingual Economies: Evidence from Catalonia

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Over-Education in Multilingual Economies: Evidence from Catalonia

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Maite Blázquez () (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Sílvio Rendon () (Stony Brook University and IZA)

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Catalonia’s economy is characterized by linguistic diversity and provides a unique opportunity to measure the incidence of language proficiency on over-education, particularly, whether individuals with deficient language skills tend to acquire more formal skills or, on the contrary, become discouraged to attend school. Descriptive evidence suggests the latter, that individuals with better language knowledge are more likely to be over-educated. However, estimating a model that controls for individuals’ socio-demographic characteristics reveals the opposite: better language knowledge decreases over-education. This effect, although robust to accounting for endogeneity of language knowledge and significant at the individual level, is mostly non-significant on average.

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- Maite Blazquez & Silvio Rendon, 2006. "Over-Education in Multilingual Economies: Evidence from Catalonia," Working Papers 0607, Centro de Investigacion Economica, ITAM. [Downloadable!]

Find related papers by JEL classification:
J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts
I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
J70 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - General

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

NEP-ALL-2007-10-06 (All new papers)
NEP-EDU-2007-10-06 (Education)
NEP-HRM-2007-10-06 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
NEP-KNM-2007-10-06 (Knowledge Management & Knowledge Economy)
NEP-MIG-2007-10-06 (Economics of Human Migration)

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