Educational Mismatches and Earnings: Extensions of Occupational Mobility Theory and Evidence of Human Capital Depreciation

Rubb, Stephen D.

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“…To sum up, in the USA mismatch is somewhat temporary, which corresponds to the results of previous studies (Sicherman ; Robst ; Rubb , ). This result is presumed to support career mobility theory that employees end up gaining an efficiently matched job via job seeking and transition.…”

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Educational mismatches and job resolution in South Korea, the USA, and Germany

Jeong

Lee

Cho

2018

Asian-Pac Economic Lit

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We examine the persistence of educational mismatches in relation to job mobility in South Korea, the USA, and Germany using ten‐year panel data. The USA, with a flexible labour market, has the highest job mobility, so mismatches for workers’ jobs in terms of educational attainment are resolved via job mobility. In contrast, in Korea, which has a dual‐structure labour market where workers have limited job mobility between core and periphery sectors, the likelihood of being mismatched increases. In Germany, the educational system, which emphasises job training, makes it possible to resolve or extinguish mismatches via job mobility only for the youth; while job mobility does not help resolve mismatches in any other age groups. These findings indicate that the different patterns in job mobility resolving mismatches over the three countries may not only stem from the efficacy of job information systems or from reducing friction in the labour market but may also be an interactive outcome of various labour market institutions affecting flexibility, such as stratification or job competency.

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Educational mismatches and job resolution in South Korea, the USA, and Germany

Jeong

Lee

Cho

2018

Asian-Pac Economic Lit

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“…For instance, the standard result is that the wages of the over-(under-)educated are lower (higher) than for the well-matched at the same education level, but higher (lower) than for the well-matched in the same job (Korpi and Tåhlin 2009;Rubb 2003;Verhaest and Omey 2012), although lack of the difference in the effect magnitude and significance was also reported (Tsai 2010). There is some evidence that the overeducated have higher wage growth than the undereducated (Rubb 2006), but this finding is again not universal (Groeneveld and Hartog 2004;Korpi and Tåhlin 2009). years, and not levels, of education. Different directions of the JPI effects can be explained as follows.…”

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Imbalanced Job Polarization and Skills Mismatch in Europe

Sparreboom

Tarvid

2016

J Labour Market Res

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This paper considers the education of the labour force based on an analysis of trends in and the relationships between job polarization and skills mismatch. Both job polarization and skills mismatch have become topics of increasing interest, but relationships between the two have been relatively neglected in the literature. We argue that the relationship between polarization and skills mismatch is an empirical matter, which we analyse at both the macroeconomic and microeconomic level in European countries. A novel job polarization index (JPI) is proposed to measure imbalanced job polarization. It takes into account not only the change in the share of medium-level jobs, as is typical for measuring pure polarization, but also the imbalance between the change in high-level and low-level jobs. Skills mismatch at macrolevel is measured by a skills mismatch index (SMI), while traditional measures of undereducation and overeducation are used at the microeconomic level. At the macroeconomic level, we estimate a system of two equations, one for each of the country-level variables gauging polarization and mismatch, respectively. Imbalanced job polarization measured Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s12651-016-0196-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.Responsibility for opinions expressed in this paper rests solely with the authors and does not constitute an endorsement by the ILO. by the JPI negatively affects skills mismatch at the macroeconomic level (SMI), but there is no significant reverse effect. Thereafter we consider the microeconomic level and study the determinants of mismatch using multi-level mixed effects logistic models. The effect of imbalanced job polarization on individual-level mismatch was arguably favourable for individuals in non-crisis time, decreasing overeducation risk although also increasing the chances of undereducation, both gauged using the normative measure, but unfavourable during the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 and the following two years.

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“…O objetivo para as duas condições de mobilidade é o acúmulo de estoque de capital humano, que resulta em melhorias na qualidade de vida e que normalmente é realizada por trabalhadores mais jovens, entre vinte e trinta anos, em busca de melhores oportunidades (RUBB, 2006).…”

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Recursos Humanos Para a Economia Do Conhecimento Na Ótica Da Teoria Do Capital Humano

Karolczak¹,

Souza²

2017

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Human Capital Theory (HCT) has helped to explain problems related to education and economic development. This study uses HCT to understand the phenomenon of the availability or shortage of human resources with training in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and others, which are essential for the development companies in a knowledge economy. The main objective of this article is to propose dimensions, categories and elements of analysis, identified in HCT, that favor the analysis of the phenomenon of the availability or shortage of these human resources. To achieve this goal, a literature review was performed on HCT, considering both seminal and contemporary references. This study proposes aspects related to training and qualification, the presence of motivating factors at an organizational level, the potential for professional mobility, and practices of investment in career development, as explanatory factors for understanding the problem of availability/shortage of human Disponível em: www.univali.br/periodicos

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Educational Mismatches and Earnings: Extensions of Occupational Mobility Theory and Evidence of Human Capital Depreciation

Cited by 46 publications

References 30 publications

Educational mismatches and job resolution in South Korea, the USA, and Germany

Educational mismatches and job resolution in South Korea, the USA, and Germany

Imbalanced Job Polarization and Skills Mismatch in Europe

Recursos Humanos Para a Economia Do Conhecimento Na Ótica Da Teoria Do Capital Humano

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