TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Cuesta, Maite Blázquez
AU  - Rendon, Silvio
        TI  - Over-Education in Multilingual Economies: Evidence from Catalonia
        PY  - 2007/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3061
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3061
        AB  - Catalonia’s economy is characterized by linguistic diversity and provides a unique opportunity to measure the incidence of language proficiency on over-education, particularly, whether individuals with deficient language skills tend to acquire more formal skills or, on the contrary, become discouraged to attend school. Descriptive evidence suggests the latter, that individuals with better language knowledge are more likely to be over-educated. However, estimating a model that controls for individuals’ socio-demographic characteristics reveals the opposite: better language knowledge decreases over-education. This effect, although robust to accounting for endogeneity of language knowledge and significant at the individual level, is mostly non-significant on average.
        KW  - over-education
KW  - language
KW  - immigration
KW  - skill premium
        ER  -