Overeducation: a short or long run phenomenon for individuals?

By Stephen D. Rubb. 2003

159 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Education

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In Demography

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2. Dieter Verhaest
3. G. Quintini
4. T. Korpi
5. P. Kler
6. R. Velden
7. Colin P. Green
8. Yu Zhu

In Economics and Econometrics

1. G. Quintini
2. Dieter Verhaest
3. R. Velden
4. F. Green
5. Stijn Baert
6. Bart Cockx
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In Education

1. R. Velden
2. Dieter Verhaest
3. Stijn Baert
4. Bart Cockx
5. G. Quintini
6. T. Korpi
7. P. Kler
8. F. Green

Citations in the corpus

• Immigrant overeducation: Evidence from recent arrivals to Australia (2007, methodology): “This is consistent with the stylised facts of overeducation (Hartog 2000, Rubb 2003, Kler 2005).”
• Cross-country differences in graduate overeducation (2013, background): “Several studies for the US (Sicherman, 1991; Robst, 1995a; Rubb, 2003) and for the Netherlands (Dekker et al., 2002; Groot and Maassen van den Brink, 2003; Groeneveld and Hartog, 2004) concluded that overeducation is rather a temporary problem for most workers.”
• Overeducation and Mismatch in the Labor Market (2011, unknown): “(Rubb (2003b), p.70) “[O]vereducation incurs significant wage costs on the individual and productivity costs on the economy that may well rise if higher education participation continues to expand without a corresponding increase in the number of graduate jobs.””
• Right for the Job: Over-Qualified or Under-Skilled? (2011, background): “The measurement of the effect of mismatch on worker’s wages, job satisfaction and on-the-job search is a key issue in the literature on qualification mismatch and several meta-analyses have been carried out so far (Groot and Maasen van den Brink, 2000; Rubb, 2003; Verhaest and Omey, 2006; and Quinti”
• Overqualification, Job Dissatisfaction, and Increasing Dispersion in the Returns to Graduate Education (2010, background): “There is limited evidence about whether overqualification is a permanent state for individual workers, but such as there is suggests that, for some, the condition is persistent (Dolton and Vignoles, 2000; Rubb, 2003; Frenette, 2004).”
• Overeducation at the Start of the Career: Stepping Stone or Trap? (2013, background): “In addition, Rubb (2003) reports a yearly transition rate from overeducation to adequate employment of about 20%, suggesting that overeducation is a temporary problem for most US workers.”
• Educational mismatch, wages, and wage growth: Overeducation in Sweden, 1974-2000 (2009, result): “The following results from cross-sectional wage regressions have been found in virtually all published studies, regardless of time and place (see Rubb 2003a for a recent overview): (a) the wage effects of both RE and OE are positive while the wage effect of UE is negative, and (b) the impact of RE…”
• Immigrant over-education: evidence from Denmark (2007, unknown): “To begin with, it is worth noting that the results are generally in accordance with the “stylized facts” in the existing overeducation literature (Hartog 2000, Rubb 2003a): (1) Returns to adequate schooling (Regression II) are higher than returns to actual education (Regression I).”