Is there a genuine under-utilization of skills amongst the over-qualified?

By F. Green, Steve B. McIntosh. 2007

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics

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Dominance and Prestige: Dual Strategies for Navigating Social Hierarchies (2016, background): “Indeed, many workers possess skills that are underutilized by their employer and, at the same time, lack the skills required for their position (Green & McIntosh, 2007; Mavromaras, McGuinness, & Fok, 2009).”
Five Characteristics of Youth Unemployment in Europe (2015, background): “In general, studies have found that relatively low proportions of workers reporting over-education also describe themselves as being over-skilled and vice versa (Allen & van der Velden, 2001; Green & McIntosh, 2007; Mavromaras et al., 2009).”
Job Mismatches and Labour Market Outcomes: Panel Evidence on University Graduates* (2013, neutral): “Green and McIntosh (2007) find a correlation between overeducation and overskilling of only 0.2, suggesting that they are measuring different things.”
Labour Market Mismatch Among UK Graduates: An Analysis Using Reflex Data (2011, methodology): “8 The competency fields are (1) mastery of own discipline (2) knowledge of other disciplines (3) analytical thinking (4) ability to acquire new knowledge (5) ability to negotiate (6) ability to perform under pressure (7) alertness to new opportunities (8) ability to coordinate activities (9) ability”
Overqualification, Job Dissatisfaction, and Increasing Dispersion in the Returns to Graduate Education (2010, background): “Green and McIntosh (2007) and Allen and Van der Velden (2001) find that there are significant detrimental effects of skill underutilisation on pay and job satisfaction, even after conditioning on overqualification.”
Overeducation and Mismatch in the Labor Market (2011, neutral): “This is an intensively studied topic in the United Kingdom (examples include Battu et al., 1999; Chevalier, 2003; Chevalier and Lindley, 2009; Dolton and Vignoles, 2000; Dolton and Silles, 2008).”
Innovation and skill dynamics: a life-cycle approach (2015, background): “…to the emergence new skill requirements11 which stands in open contrast with evidence on phenomena like educational mismatches and over-education (Green and McIntosh, 2007; OECD, 2009), often interpreted as transitory phenomena due to frictions and lags in finding an appropriate occupation.”
Employability skills initiatives in higher education: what effects do they have on graduate labour market outcomes? (2009, background): “Recent UK evidence in support of this hypothesis of ‘heterogeneous skills within qualification levels’ has been presented by Green and McIntosh ( 2002 ), who find that less than one‐half of people identified in the 2001 Skills Survey as over‐qualified (in terms of formal certification) for their job”
Skills at work, 1986 to 2006 (2007, background): “Previous research has indicated that there is a correlation between being ‘‘over-qualified’’ in the sense defined here and being ‘‘over-skilled’’, in the sense that the jobholder perceives he has skills that are not being fully utilised at work (Green and McIntosh, 2007).”
“I Have a Job, But . . .”: A Review of Underemployment (2011, background): “…overqualified for the jobs they hold, underemployment estimates range from 17% (Bureau of Labor Statistics) to 22% (McGuinness, 2006) to about one third of the current workforce (Green & McIntosh, 2007; Green & Zhu, 2010), including over 20% who are considered “highly overqualified” (Vaisey, 2006).”
Overeducation and the skills of UK graduates (2007, background): “quality skills but simply that their skills are not in demand, as Green and McIntosh (2007) suggested.”
How Useful is the Concept of Skills Mismatch? (2017, background): “While overskilling and overeducation both measure surplus human capital, they are found to be weakly correlated (Green and McIntosh, 2007 and Flisi et al., 2014).”
Overeducation at the Start of the Career: Stepping Stone or Trap? (2013, background): “An often-formulated criticism on the literature of overeducation is that many workers are only “apparently overeducated” (Chevalier, 2003; Green and McIntosh, 2007), i.”
Right for the Job: Over-Qualified or Under-Skilled? (2011, background): “Green and Zhu (2010) report increasing dispersion of returns to graduate education in Britain.”