TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Cockx, Bart
AU  - Dejemeppe, Muriel
        TI  - Do the Higher Educated Unemployed Crowd Out the Lower Educated Ones in a Competition for Jobs?
        PY  - 2002/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 541
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp541
        AB  - This paper proposes a new method to estimate the extent of job competition between
workers with different schooling levels. We estimate the structural parameters of a matching
function generalised to incorporate crowding out effects. We use flow data out of
unemployment containing information on the level of educational attainment of the worker,
but not on the level of schooling required by the employer for the job. The method therefore
avoids the bias induced by mismeasurement in the educational requirements. Applied to
Belgian data, we find evidence of significant crowding out among dismissed workers,
particularly at the highest schooling levels.

        KW  - job competition
KW  - crowding out
KW  - overeducation
KW  - matching function
KW  - duration analysis
        ER  -