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The IZA Discussion Paper Series makes new research output by IZA staff and network members accessible before it gets published in refereed journals. Already comprising over 17,000 working papers, the series has become the premier outlet for brand new research in the field. Submission guidelines for authors.

107 IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18730

Imperfect Self-knowledge about Skills and Skill Mismatch

Daniel Goller, Enzo Brox, Stefan C. Wolter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18609

Determinants and Wage Penalty of Skills Mismatch: Cross-Country Evidence from ETF Partner Countries

Chiara Kofol, Ben Kriechel, Maryna Melnyk, Tim Vetter, Mircea Badescu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18609

Determinants and Wage Penalty of Skills Mismatch: Cross-Country Evidence from ETF Partner Countries

Chiara Kofol, Ben Kriechel, Maryna Melnyk, Tim Vetter, Mircea Badescu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18186

Worker Beliefs about Firm Training

Hanna Brosch, Philipp Lergetporer, Florian Schoner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18171

Private Highs: Investigating University Overmatch Among Students from Elite Schools

Jo Blanden, Oliver Cassagneau-Francis, Lindsey Macmillan, Gill Wyness

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18098

Job Mismatch and Early Career Success

Julie Berry Cullen, Gordon B. Dahl, Richard De Thorpe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17426

Who Gets to Stay? How Mass Layoffs Reshape Firms' Skills Structure

David N. Margolis, Jaime Montana

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17424

Firm Human Resource Practices and Educational Mismatch

Gabriella Berloffa, Daniela Piazzalunga, Fabio Pieri

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17363

Work Hours Mismatch

Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas, Raffaele Saggio, Stephen A. Woodbury

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17237

Statistical Discrimination and Optimal Mismatch in College Major Selection

Mary Kate Batistich, Timothy N. Bond, Sebastian Linde, Kevin J. Mumford

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16931

Keeping It in the Family: Student to Degree Match

Richard J. Murphy, Pedro Luís Silva

Forthcoming in: Labour Economics, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2026.102922

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16467

Labor Market Dynamics with Sorting

Bastian Schulz

published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2024, 158, 104776

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16215

Preference-Choice Mismatch and University Dropout

Didier Fouarge, Pascal Heß

pubished in: Labour Economics, 2023, 83, 102405

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16079

The Increasing Penalty to Occupation-Education Mismatch

Hugh Cassidy, Amanda Gaulke

revised version published in Economic Inquiry, 2024, 62 (2), 607–632.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15943

Earnings Penalty of Educational Mismatch: A Comparison of Alternative Methods of Assessing Over-Education

Le Wen, Sholeh A. Maani

published in: New Zealand Economic Papers, 2022, 56 (2), 169–194.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15917

Did COVID-19 Deteriorate Mismatch in the Japanese Labor Market?

Yudai Higashi, Masaru Sasaki

published in: Japan and the World Economy, 2025, 76, 101331

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15610

Matching Efficiency and Heterogeneous Workers in the UK

Elena Lisauskaite

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15507

Boomerang College Kids: Unemployment, Job Mismatch and Coresidence

Stefania Albanesi, Rania Gihleb, Ning Zhang

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. 15108

Educational and Skills Mismatches: Unravelling Their Effects on Wages across Europe

Loredana Cultrera, Benoît Mahy, François Rycx, Guillaume Vermeylen

published in: Education Economics, 2022, 30 (6), 561-573

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15108

Educational and Skills Mismatches: Unravelling Their Effects on Wages across Europe

Loredana Cultrera, Benoît Mahy, François Rycx, Guillaume Vermeylen

published in: Education Economics, 2022, 30 (6), 561-573

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14813

Wage Effects of Educational Mismatch According to Workers' Origin: The Role of Demographics and Firm Characteristics

Valentine Jacobs, François Rycx, Mélanie Volral

published in: De Economist, 2022, 170 (4), 459-501

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14732

Working Time Mismatch and Job Satisfaction - The Role of Employees' Time Autonomy and Gender

Christian Grund, Katja Rebecca Tilkes

published in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2023, 34, 4003-4025.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14697

The Role of the Workplace in Ethnic Wage Differentials

John Forth, Nikos Theodoropoulos, Alex Bryson

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023, 61 (2), 259-290

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14558

Does Educational Mismatch Affect Emigration Behaviour?

Philippe Wanner, Marco Pecoraro, Massimiliano Tani

published in: European Journal of Population, 2021, 37, 959 - 995

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14231

Cities and Tasks

Hans R.A. Koster, Ceren Ozgen

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 126, 103386

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. 13764

The Transition to Self-Employment and Perceived Skill-Mismatches: Panel Data Evidence from Eleven EU Countries

Judit Albiol Sanchez, Luis Diaz-Serrano, Mercedes Teruel

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2021, 153, 957-977

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13393

Recessions and Occupational Match Quality: The Role of Age, Gender, and Education

John T. Addison, Liwen Chen, Orgul Demet Ozturk

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13251

Choosing Differently? College Application Behavior and the Persistence of Educational Advantage

Judith M. Delaney, Paul J. Devereux

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 77, 101998

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12975

Education-Occupation Mismatch and Social Networks for Hispanics in the US: Role of Citizenship

Kusum Mundra, Fernando Rios-Avila

published in: Education Economics, 2024, 32 (2), 185 - 209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12975

Education-Occupation Mismatch and Social Networks for Hispanics in the US: Role of Citizenship

Kusum Mundra, Fernando Rios-Avila

published in: Education Economics, 2024, 32 (2), 185 - 209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12974

Output Costs of Education and Skill Mismatch

Pietro Garibaldi, Pedro Maia Gomes, Thepthida Sopraseuth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12974

Output Costs of Education and Skill Mismatch

Pietro Garibaldi, Pedro Maia Gomes, Thepthida Sopraseuth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12824

Connecting Disadvantaged Communities to Work and Higher Education Opportunities: Evidence from Public Transportation Penetration to Arab Towns in Israel

Aamer Abu-Qarn, Shirlee Lichtman-Sadot

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12541

Skills-Displacing Technological Change and Its Impact on Jobs: Challenging Technological Alarmism?

Seamus McGuinness, Konstantinos Pouliakas, Paul Redmond

published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2023, 32 (3), 370-392

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12407

The Impact of Horizontal Job-Education Mismatches on the Earnings of Recent University Graduates in Russia

Victor Rudakov, Hugo Figueiredo, Pedro N. Teixeira, Sergey Roshchin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12407

The Impact of Horizontal Job-Education Mismatches on the Earnings of Recent University Graduates in Russia

Victor Rudakov, Hugo Figueiredo, Pedro N. Teixeira, Sergey Roshchin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12407

The Impact of Horizontal Job-Education Mismatches on the Earnings of Recent University Graduates in Russia

Victor Rudakov, Hugo Figueiredo, Pedro N. Teixeira, Sergey Roshchin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12346

Skill Shortages and Skill Mismatch in Europe: A Review of the Literature

Giorgio Brunello, Patricia Wruuck

published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2021, 35 (4), 1145-1167

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. 11291

Crushing Hope: Short Term Responses to Tragedy Vary by Hopefulness

Jason M. Fletcher

published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2018, 201, 59-62

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11216

A Panel Study of Immigrants' Overeducation and Earnings in Australia

Le Wen, Sholeh A. Maani

published in: International Migration, 2018, 56 (2), 177-200

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11114

Occupational Match Quality and Gender over Two Cohorts

John T. Addison, Liwen Chen, Orgul Demet Ozturk

revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2020, 73(3), 730-767.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10904

Employment Protection Legislation and Mismatch: Evidence from a Reform

Fabio Berton, Francesco Devicienti, Sara Grubanov-Boskovic

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. 10459

Stereotype Threat, Role Models, and Demographic Mismatch in an Elite Professional School Setting

Christopher Birdsall, Seth Gershenson, Raymond Zuniga

published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2020, 15(3): 457-486.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10399

Who Is Your Perfect Match? Educational Norms, Educational Mismatch and Firm Profitability

Stephan Kampelmann, Benoît Mahy, François Rycx, Guillaume Vermeylen

published as 'Over-, Required and Under-education: Consequences on the Bottom Line of Firms' in: Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2020, 34 (1), 80-112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10302

Work-Related Learning and Skill Development in Europe: Does Initial Skill Mismatch Matter?

Maria Ferreira Sequeda, Annemarie Künn-Nelen, Andries de Grip

published in: Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Pouliakas. Giovanni Russo, Konstantinos Tatsiramos (eds.): Skill Mismatch in Labor Markets (Research in Labor Economics, 45) Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017, 345 - 407

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

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