Overqualification, Job Dissatisfaction, and Increasing Dispersion in the Returns to Graduate Education

By F. Green, Yu Zhu. 2010

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The logic of economic development: a definition and model for investment (2016, background): “However, job markets are highly uncertain and individuals invest without a guaranteed return (Green & Zhu, 2010).”
Right for the Job: Over-Qualified or Under-Skilled? (2011, background): “In the academic literature, qualification and skill mismatch have been explored jointly for the United Kingdom by Green and McIntosh (2007) and Green and Zhu (2010). These authors distinguish “formal over-qualification” – which is determined based on qualifications only – from “real over-qualificati”
Economic Returns to Education: What We Know, What We Don't Know, and Where We Are Going Some Brief Pointers (2011, unknown): “Other work focuses on specific 'ranges' of the education distribution such as higher education including, inter alia, Walker and Zhu (2008, 2011), Green and Zhu (2010) and Chevalier (2011).”
Overeducation and Mismatch in the Labor Market (2011, unknown): “15See also Battu et al. (1999) (who control for the degree class and institution type in the UK), Dolton and Vignoles (2000) and Green and Zhu (2010) (who look at degree classifications and universities’ reputation).”
Labour Market Mismatch Among UK Graduates: An Analysis Using Reflex Data (2011, background): “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”
Graduate Employability: A Review of Conceptual and Empirical Themes (2012, background): “Various analysis of graduate returns (Brown and Hesketh, 2004; Green and Zhu, 2010) have highlighted the significant disparities that exist among graduates; in particular, some marked differences between the highest graduate earners and the rest.”
I'm Too Good for This Job: Narcissism's Role in the Experience of Overqualification (2015, background): “Anderson and Winefield (2011) as well as Green and Zhu (2010) provide several explanations for this relationship, including the fact that overqualified employees tend to earn less than peers who are adequately qualified and that such jobs may not provide adequate opportunities for training and…”
Job Mismatches and Labour Market Outcomes: Panel Evidence on University Graduates* (2013, unknown): “13 considered using an “objective method” similar to the one used by Kler (2005) to define overeducation.”
The role of education in intergenerational social mobility: Problems from empirical research in sociology and some theoretical pointers from economics (2014, background): “…terms of D – i.e. the class or status positions that individuals eventually achieve – will tend, on average, to decline as employers not only make more refined distinctions within categories of qualification (Green and Zhu, 2010) but also discriminate by drawing more on other kinds of information.”
How Useful is the Concept of Skills Mismatch? (2017, background): “, 2015) and is associated with lower job satisfaction (Mavromaras et al., 2012; Sloane, 2014; Green and Zhu, 2010; Congregado et al., 2016) and lower workplace harmony (Belfield, 2010).”
Workforce Skills and Innovation: An Overview of Major Themes in the Literature. OECD Education Working Papers, No. 55. (2011, background): “In addition it is difficult to square the claim of a generalised rise in the demand for skills with studies that suggest credentialism and over-qualification are widespread in developed economies (Brynin 2002; Wolf 2004; Green and Zhu, 2010).”
Trends in Intergenerational Class Mobility in Modern Britain: Evidence From National Surveys, 1972—2005 (2008, background): “…Goldthorpe and Jackson, 2008) and in which the worklife experience of many of the higher educated is not upward mobility but rather ‘over-qualification’ (Green and Zhu, 2008).30 96 NATIONAL INSTITUTE ECONOMIC REVIEW No. 205 JULY 2008 Another possible approach to the ‘mobility problem’, as we…”
Understanding – and Misunderstanding – Social Mobility in Britain: The Entry of the Economists, the Confusion of Politicians and the Limits of Educational Policy (2013, background): “…indicates that in Britain, as in other advanced societies, this is increasing and becoming a prevailing feature of labour markets rather than the temporary disequilibrium that human capital theory might allow for (Chevalier and Lindley, 2009; Green and Zhu, 2010; Wolf, 2011: part 2).”