Dynamics of overqualification: evidence from the early career of graduates

Erdsiek, Daniel

doi:10.1080/09645292.2021.1882391

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“…Policy interventions aimed at enhancing job mobility, such as skill recognition programs and gaining work experience before graduation, can be effective in addressing education-occupation mismatch and reducing labor market imbalances (Montt, 2017). Additionally, as we showed in this paper, pursuing a Master’s program can contribute to mitigating horizontal skill mismatch (Erdsiek, 2021).…”

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“…Our findings show that attending a Educationoccupation mismatch college field that does not build on a previous high school track increases the risk of horizontal mismatch at the first job after graduation. Moreover, graduates that are mismatched at the first job also seem more likely to remain mismatched at the workplace five years following graduation, suggesting that the first job might determine the graduate's subsequent professional career (Erdsiek, 2021). Another key finding refers to vertical mismatch.…”

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Having your career path decided too early: the effects of high school track on education-occupation mismatch

Botezat,

Incaltarau,

Diac

et al. 2024

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PurposeThis paper aims to extend the scope of previous studies on education-occupation mismatch to explicitly focus on the role high school track choices have on the risk of being mismatched in the labor market.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses the most exhaustive available database regarding the early-career paths of university graduates in Romania. Using a novel matching technique, entropy balancing (EB), our study relies on multinomial logit models and logit regressions to estimate the effect of the completed high school track on the likelihood of being mismatched in the labor market. The empirical analysis focuses on two types of education-occupation mismatches: horizontal and vertical mismatches.FindingsWe show that studying a different field in college compared to the completed high school track increases the risk of being skill mismatched in the first job after graduation. Five years after college graduation, the influence of the high school track fades, while being skill mismatched in the first employment plays a more important role. In contrast, we find no evidence that pursuing a college major unrelated to the completed high school track increases the probability of being overeducated. However, being overeducated in the first job increases the risk of being overeducated five years later.Originality/valueThe study brings new reliable evidence on the extent to which high school track choices may contribute to the risk of being mismatched in the labor market.

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Having your career path decided too early: the effects of high school track on education-occupation mismatch

Botezat,

Incaltarau,

Diac

et al. 2024

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“…Much of the overqualification literature focuses on age and immigrant status, creating a need over overqualification research with a focus on other categories of vulnerable workers including those with a disability (e.g., Rafferty, 2020;Erdogan, Bauer, Peiró, & Truxillo, 2011). At a macro level, discrimination driven employee job mismatches lead to productivity losses (Erdsiek, 2021). At a micro level, overqualified employees are underpaid (Banerjee, Verma, & Zhang, 2018) and may experience reduced wellbeing (Hilbrecht, Smale,, & Mock, 2017).…”

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Identifying with Disability: Benefit or Barrier? A Three-Part Study Examining the Impact of Disability on Over-Qualification, Access to Work-Related Training, and Inclusion in University Classrooms

Emanuel

2024

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<p>Despite Canada's commitment against discrimination, workers with disabilities face barriers to labour market participation. Relying on Human Capital Theory, Signaling Theory, and Stigma theory, this three-part study examines impact of disability status in three distinct contexts. Study 1 explores the relationship between disability status and job-qualification mismatches in a representative sample of 7172 respondents from Statistics Canada's General Social Survey (GSS) data bases. Disability status is negatively corelated with horizontal job education match, and positively corelated with perceptions of under-qualification. Study 2 explores the relationship between disability status and work-related training using a series of logistic regressions, and a GSS sample of n =7, 154. Disability status is negatively corelated with the probability of receiving employer-sponsored training. Study 3 tests the impact of disclosing disability related information university project team inclusion decisions. Using a sample of 378 TMU students, Study 3 found that signaling diabetes had no main effect on inclusion ratings, but diabetes-related stigma negatively predicted the inclusion of those with diabetes. Taken together, these studies failed to prove disability status as a consistent disadvantage. Instead, unanticipated results suggest a more complex relationship between disability status and labour market outcomes. I discuss the implications of these findings and suggest directions for future research.</p>

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“…A worker is considered to be overeducated if someone education level is higher than that required to adequately perform a specific job (McGuinness, 2006). The evidence indicates that young workers entering the labour market for the first time are the most affected (Meroni and Vera-Toscano, 2017; Erdsiek, 2021) and that the incidence level falls as their age and experience increases. However, research has shown that this evidence cannot be generalized to all workers.…”

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Overeducation and scarring effects on the wages of young graduates

Eguía

González

Serrano

2023

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PurposeThe authors’ goal in this paper is to study if there are long-run effects on the wages of those workers who entered the labour market overeducated but who have, over time, been able to overcome this situation by obtaining a job for which they are correctly matched.Design/methodology/approachThis study universe is constituted by workers entering the labour market with a university degree between 2004 and 2012. The age range of these individuals is between 22 and 35 years old. With the data of the 8,359 selected individuals, the authors have constructed a balanced panel covering the period 2013–2017. This methodology is developed in two steps. First, the authors estimate a wage equation with the traditional variables and, second, the authors use the estimated coefficients of these variables to predict the wage paths of a representative individual in each group.FindingsThe main result the authors obtain indicates that the wages of those who manage to overcome an initial situation of overeducation do converge but very slowly to the respective wages of those others that entered the labour market correctly matched from the beginning. The authors consider this result to point towards the existence of scarring effects in wages induced by an initial situation of overeducation. The authors also present evidence, beyond education, about the influence that the occupational characteristics that a worker has on wages.Research limitations/implicationsThe factors that can influence the catching-up of wages are multiple, and it is not feasible to test all of them empirically. Therefore, the wage convergence process the authors present may also be influenced by other variables for which the authors do not have information.Practical implicationsThis paper contributes to different branches of the labour market. First, the authors present new evidence within the literature dealing with the so-called scarring effects on wages related to the conditions entering the labour market. Secondly, this study’s results provide a new argument that complements those developed so far that explain a reduction in the wage skill premium detected among young graduates in Spain. Finally, this paper contributes to advancing research about the effects that overeducation has on wages.Originality/valueThe question the authors are attempting to answer in this paper can be formulated in the following terms: when a worker manages to overcome an initial situation of overeducation, what happens to his/her wage? Will it adjust quickly to the new working situation, or will we observe a slow convergence to the wages of workers with an employment history without overeducation situations? To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this topic has not yet been studied. Researchers have mostly focused their attention on comparing the wages of overeducated workers with the wages of those who are correctly matched. In this case, the authors compare the wages of correctly matched workers, but with the difference that some were initially overeducated and others were not.

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Dynamics of overqualification: evidence from the early career of graduates

Cited by 9 publications

References 73 publications

Having your career path decided too early: the effects of high school track on education-occupation mismatch

Having your career path decided too early: the effects of high school track on education-occupation mismatch

Identifying with Disability: Benefit or Barrier? A Three-Part Study Examining the Impact of Disability on Over-Qualification, Access to Work-Related Training, and Inclusion in University Classrooms

Overeducation and scarring effects on the wages of young graduates

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