Are we educating too much? Overeducation in the labor market: A meta analysis
By Wim Groot, Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink. 2000
682 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education, Gender Studies
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In Economics and Econometrics
- Dieter Verhaest
- Edward Omey
- Stephen D. Rubb
- John M Robst
- H. G. van de Werfhorst
- L. Støren
- P. Aamodt
- F. Büchel
In Education
- Dieter Verhaest
- Edward Omey
- Stephen D. Rubb
- H. G. van de Werfhorst
- John M Robst
- L. Støren
- P. Aamodt
- F. Büchel
In Gender Studies
- John M Robst
- Dieter Verhaest
- Stephen D. Rubb
- Joop Hartog
- M. Frenette
- F. Büchel
- R. Andersen
- Edward Omey
Citations in the corpus
- The overqualified Canadian graduate: the role of the academic program in the incidence, persistence, and economic returns to overqualification (2004, background): “ket. A recent meta-analysis by Groot and Maassen van den Brink (2000) concludes that the rate of overqualification found in the major studies is roughly 26%.”
- Over-education and earnings: Where are we, where should we go? (2000, methodology): “a data based on Conen and Huijgen (1980) b data based on Huijgen et al. (1983) c individually rated match quality, rather than asssessed required education d threshold of one standard deviation e Hartog and Oosterbeek (1988) f Hartog (1985) g Groot (1993) h Groot and Maassen van den Brink (1995) i A”
- The Returns to Education: A Review of Evidence, Issues and Deficiencies in the Literature (2000, neutral): “Groot and Maassen van den Brink (2000) show the often conflicting results from this literature based on a meta-analysis of the returns to education and overeducation literature (some 50 studies in total).”
- Education and job match: The relatedness of college major and work (2007, background): “Hartog (2000) provides an excellent overview of the questions addressed in this area of research.”
- Social Background, Credential Inflation and Educational Strategies (2005, background): “There has been research examining the extent to which people are over-educated for the labour market (Clogg and Shockey, 1984; Boylan, 1993; Van der Ploeg, 1994; Groot and Maassen van den Brink, 2000; Wolbers et al., 2001), but these studies have not incorporated educational inequality.”
- The Determinants of Overeducation: Different Measures, Different Outcomes? (2010, background): “Recently, an extensive body of literature on overeducation – typically defined as a situation in which individuals have more education than their job requires for one to perform adequately – exists, with estimates for different countries ranging from 10 per cent to more than 40 per cent of the worki”