1994
DOI: 10.2307/2112749
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Overeducation and Skill Mismatch

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“…(see among others Borghans and De Grip, 2000;Clogg and Shockey, 1984;Freeman, 1976;Groot and Maasen van den Brink, 2000;Halaby, 1994;Hartog and Oosterbeek, 1988;Smith, 1986;Wolbers, De Graaf and Ultee, 2001). Workers are overeducated if the level of education they have acquired exceeds the level of education required to perform their job adequately.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…(see among others Borghans and De Grip, 2000;Clogg and Shockey, 1984;Freeman, 1976;Groot and Maasen van den Brink, 2000;Halaby, 1994;Hartog and Oosterbeek, 1988;Smith, 1986;Wolbers, De Graaf and Ultee, 2001). Workers are overeducated if the level of education they have acquired exceeds the level of education required to perform their job adequately.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A well-known classification for occupations in the United States is the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT). Utilizing the DOT is the most common method of measuring overeducation that originated with Eckhaus's (1964) and later Scoville's (1966) and Berg's (1970) utilization of the General Educational Development (GED) scale of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles to estimate the years of schooling required for average functional performance in an occupation in an objective way (Halaby 1994). …”
Section: Measurement Of Overqualificationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Table 1 outlines how the GED score of the occupation is transferred into required schooling needed for a job: From: Burris (1983) Halaby (1994) describes weaknesses of this procedure in that there is no consensus on the way of converting the scores of jobs on the six-point GED scale to parallel years-ofschooling scores. The GED scale estimates the mean years of required schooling in an occupation that is constructed by aggregating jobs, and because of this, it is ignoring the differences in the average years of required schooling across jobs within an occupation (Halaby 1994). Also, some have questioned whether the GED scale measures what it purports to measure (Halaby 1994).…”
Section: Measurement Of Overqualificationmentioning
confidence: 99%
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