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39 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17424
Firm Human Resource Practices and Educational Mismatch
Gabriella Berloffa, Daniela Piazzalunga, Fabio Pieri
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17161
Overeducation, Earnings and Job Satisfaction among Graduates in China
Melanie K. Jones, Ezgi Kaya, Jiarui Nan
published in: China Economic Review, 2025, 93, 102448
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17027
Immigrant Overeducation across Generations: The Role of Gender and Part-Time Work
Kevin Pineda-Hernández, François Rycx, Mélanie Volral
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2025, 77 (2), 445-465
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16913
Overeducation, Overskilling and Job Satisfaction in Europe: The Moderating Role of Employment Contracts
Romina Giuliano, Benoît Mahy, François Rycx, Guillaume Vermeylen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16798
Overeducation and Economic Mobility
Simen Markussen, Maria Nareklishvili, Knut Røed
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 103, 102595
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15143
The Magnitude and Predictors of Overeducation and Overskilling in Latin America: Evidence from PIAAC
Juan Francisco Castro, Lorena Ortega, Gustavo Yamada, David Mata
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14123
Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Labour Market Outcomes
Matloob Piracha, Massimiliano Tani, Zhiming Cheng, Ben Zhe Wang
revised version published as 'Social Assimilation and Immigrants' Labour Market Outcomes' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 37 - 67
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13868
Overeducation, Major Mismatch, and Return to Higher Education Tiers: Evidence from Novel Data Source of a Major Online Recruitment Platform in China
Yanqiao Zheng, Xiaoqi Zhang, Yu Zhu
published in: China Economic Review, 2021, 66 (1), 101584
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11325
Overeducation Wage Penalty among Ph.D. Holders: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Analysis on Italian Data
Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta, Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera, Francesco Pastore
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2023, 44 (6), 1096-1117
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10786
How Useful Is the Concept of Skills Mismatch?
Seamus McGuinness, Konstantinos Pouliakas, Paul Redmond
revised version published as 'Skills mismatch: Concepts, Measurement and Policy Approaches' in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2018, 32 (4), 985-1085
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10678
Overeducation in Europe: Trends, Convergence and Drivers
Seamus McGuinness, Adele Bergin, Adele Whelan
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (4), 994 - 1015
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10250
Determinants of Regional Differences in Rates of Overeducation in Europe
Maria A. Davia, Seamus McGuinness, Philip J. O'Connell
published in: Social Science Research, 2017, 67-80
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10138
Is There a Role for Higher Education Institutions in Improving the Quality of First Employment?
Seamus McGuinness, Adele Whelan, Adele Bergin
published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2016, 16(4), 12-23
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10051
Much Ado About Nothing? The Wage Effect of Holding a Ph.D. Degree But Not a Ph.D. Job Position
Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta, Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera, Francesco Pastore
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2017, 45, 243-277
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9698
Deconstructing Theories of Overeducation in Europe: A Wage Decomposition Approach
Seamus McGuinness, Konstantinos Pouliakas
published in: S.W. Polachek et al. (eds.): Skill Mismatch in Labor Markets (Research in Labor Economics, 45) , 2017, 81 - 127
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9137
The Early Labour Market Effects of Generally and Vocationally Oriented Higher Education: Is There a Trade-off?
Dieter Verhaest, Stijn Baert
revised version published as 'The effects of workplace learning in higher education on employment and match quality: Is there an early-career trade-off?' in: Empirical Economics, 2018, 44, 1229 - 1270
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9049
Overeducation: A Disease of the School-to-Work Transition System
Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Francesco Pastore
published in: G. Coppola and N. O'Higgins (eds): Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, Education and Health in Europe, Routledge, 2016, 36-56
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8440
Examining the Relationships between Labour Market Mismatches, Earnings and Job Satisfaction among Immigrant Graduates in Europe
Seamus McGuinness, Delma Byrne
published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4 (17)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8313
The Career Prospects of Overeducated Americans
Brian Clark, Clement Joubert, Arnaud Maurel
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 6:3
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8312
Unemployment or Overeducation: Which is a Worse Signal to Employers?
Stijn Baert, Dieter Verhaest
revised version published in: De Economist, 2019, 167, 1 - 21
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