Over-education and earnings: Where are we, where should we go?

By Joop Hartog. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Educational mismatch, wages, and wage growth: Overeducation in Sweden, 1974-2000 (2009, methodology): “11 Assignment models may be useful in this regard (see, e.g., Sattinger 1975, 1993; Teulings 1995), but have so far proved difficult to combine with the ORU-type model specification (see Hartog 2000: 140f).”
Are we educating too much? Overeducation in the labor market: A meta analysis (2000, background): “All of the definitions have their drawbacks and limitations; for a discussion on these, see Clogg and Shockey (1984), Dolton and Vignoles (2000), Halaby (1994) and Hartog (2000).”
The Effects of Overeducation on Productivity in Germany - the Firms' Viewpoint (2002, background): “Hartog (2000) writes: ”It would be highly informative if we knew the effect of over- and undereducation on productivity, rather than on wages.”
Education and job match: The relatedness of college major and work (2007, background): “The existence of educational mismatch is consistent with labor market theories including human ARTICLE IN PRESS J. Robst / Economics of Education Review 26 (2007) 397–407 399 capital, job search and matching, and assignment among others (Hartog, 2000).”
Overqualification, Job Dissatisfaction, and Increasing Dispersion in the Returns to Graduate Education (2010, background): “While Hartog (2000) finds evidence of some growth in overqualification in the Netherlands over 1960-1995, Spain 1985-1990 and Portugal 1982-1992, a metaanalysis of 25 single country studies (Groot and van den Brink, 2000) found that there has in recent decades been no upward trend in…”
Occupational language requirements and the value of English in the US labor market (2007, neutral): “Hence, while these data provide information on job requirements, the method of collection cannot be categorized neatly into one of the “Job Analyst”, “Worker Selfassessment”, or “Realized Matches” approaches used in the undereducation/overeducation literature (see Hartog, 2000).”
The Impact of Overeducation and its Measurement (2006, neutral): “However, there are large differences in the formulation of the question on which the measure is based (see also Hartog (2000)).”
Understanding the ethnic pay gap in Britain (2012, background): “…qualifications, they tend to be over-represented in other occupations where their credentials might be of less value, with the result that they are over-qualified for the work they do; they will tend to be better paid than those who are not over-qualified (Battu and Sloane, 2004; Hartog, 2000).”
Overeducation in the labor market: a comment and re-analysis of a meta-analysis (2003, background): “1 Hartog (2000) provides a useful overview of the literature”
Why is the Payoff to Schooling Smaller for Immigrants? (2008, neutral): “Section VI contains a brief summary and conclusion, with implications for the immigrant adjustment literature.”
The Impact of Educational Mismatch on Firm Productivity: Evidence from Linked Panel Data (2012, neutral): “Attained_educationi,j,t the number of years corresponding to the highest level of education attained by worker i employed in firm j at time t. d) UNDER*j,t is the average of the years of under-education in firm j at time t, controlling for cohort effects.”
Do Fields of Study Matter for Over-education? (2008, background): “However, as observed by Dolton and Vignoles (2000), as well as Frenette (2004), Groot and van den Brink (2000), Hartog (2000) and McGuinness and Wooden (2007) the phenomenon of overeducation persists and gives positive return to wages.”
Educational mismatch and wages: a panel analysis (2002, background): “As Hartog and Oosterbeek (1988) note, two competing theoretical models, the human capital theory and the job competition theory as derived by Thurow (1975), are nested in specification (4).”