@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp8885,
            	author={Mahy, Benoît and Rycx, François and Vermeylen, Guillaume},
            	title={Educational Mismatch and Firm Productivity: Do Skills, Technology and Uncertainty Matter?},
            	year={2015},
	month={Feb},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={8885},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8885},
	abstract={The authors provide first evidence on whether the direct relationship between educational mismatch and firm productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data for 1999-2010, they find the existence of a significant, positive (negative) impact of over- (under-)education on firm productivity. Moreover, their results show that the effect of over-education on productivity is stronger among firms: (i) with a higher share of high-skilled jobs, (ii) belonging to high-tech/knowledge-intensive industries, and (iii) evolving in a more uncertain economic environment. Interaction effects between under-education and working environments are less clear-cut. However, economic uncertainty is systematically found to accentuate the detrimental effect of under-education on productivity.},
	keywords={educational mismatch;productivity;linked employer-employee panel data;working environments},
            }