TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Groeneveld, Sandra
AU  - Hartog, Joop
        TI  - Overeducation, Wages and Promotions within the Firm
        PY  - 2003/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 883
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp883
        AB  - We analyse data from personnel records of a large firm producing energy and
telecommunication and test for the effect of deviations between required and attained
education of workers. Required education is measured as hiring standards set by the firm.
We find the usual effects of over- and undereducation in a wage regression, thus rejecting
the argument that such effects are exclusively due to firm fixed effects. Distinguishing, within
the firm, between a sheltered internal labour market and an exposed external labour market,
we find that at the internal labour market over- and undereducation significantly affect career
development, in particular at younger ages, but that such effects are mostly absent at the
firm’s external labour market.
        KW  - career mobility
KW  - wages
KW  - overeducation
KW  - education
KW  - promotions
        ER  -