%0 Report
        %A Mahy, Benoît
%A Rycx, François
%A Vermeylen, Guillaume
        %T Educational Mismatch and Firm Productivity: Do Skills, Technology and Uncertainty Matter?
        %D 2015
        %8 2015 Feb
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 8885
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8885
        %X 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.
        %K educational mismatch
%K productivity
%K linked employer-employee panel data
%K working environments