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Educational and Skills Mismatches: Unravelling Their Effects on Wages across Europe

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  • Cultrera, Loredana

    (University of Mons)

  • Mahy, Benoît

    (University of Mons)

  • Rycx, François

    (Free University of Brussels)

  • Vermeylen, Guillaume

    (University of Mons)

Abstract

This paper is among the firsts to investigate the impact of overeducation and overskilling on workers' wages using a unique pan-European database covering twenty-eight countries for the year 2014, namely the CEDEFOP's European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey. Overall, the results suggest a wage penalty associated with overeducation. When interacting educational mismatch with skills mismatch into apparent overeducation and genuine overeducation, the results suggest that the highest wage penalty is reached for workers that are both overeducated and overskilled.

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  • Cultrera, Loredana & Mahy, Benoît & Rycx, François & Vermeylen, Guillaume, 2022. "Educational and Skills Mismatches: Unravelling Their Effects on Wages across Europe," IZA Discussion Papers 15108, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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    Keywords

    educational mismatch; skills mismatch; wages; European survey;
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    JEL classification:

    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

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