The Impact of Overeducation and its Measurement

By Dieter Verhaest, Edward Omey. 2006

258 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• I’m too clever for this job: a bivariate probit analysis on overeducation and job satisfaction in Australia (2008, unknown): “In a more recent study of Belgian school leavers, Verhaest and Omey (2004) report that, once attained education is controlled for, overeducated workers are less satisfied, more mobile, participate less in training and earn less than adequately educated workers.”
• Objective over-education and worker well-being: A shadow price approach (2008, unknown): “Problems of spurious correlation between over-education and job satisfaction, therefore, might be severe (Verhaest & Omey, 2006b).”
• The Determinants of Overeducation: Different Measures, Different Outcomes? (2010, unknown): “Finally, descriptive results by Verhaest and Omey (2006b) show that the socio-economic groups with the highest overeducation inci- dence also depend on the applied measure.”
• Overeducation and Mismatch in the Labor Market (2011, unknown): “The significantly negative/positive impact of over/underschooling on job satisfaction reported by Hersch (1991); Korpi and Tahlin (2009); Verhaest and Omey (2006b) contradict this explanation.”
• An Analysis of Skill Mismatch Using Direct Measures of Skills (2011, unknown): “Overeducated workers have been found to be less likely to participate in adult education/training when compared to matched workers who have the same qualifications (Hersch, 1991; van Smoorenburg & van der Velden, 2000; Büchel & Mertens, 2004; Verhaest & Omey, 2006).”
• Right for the Job: Over-Qualified or Under-Skilled? (2011, unknown): “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”
• “I Have a Job, But . . .”: A Review of Underemployment (2011, unknown): “For example, Verhaest and Omey (2006) summarized four distinct ways to measure overeducation.”
• I'm Too Good for This Job: Narcissism's Role in the Experience of Overqualification (2015, unknown): “To measure participants’ objective overqualification, we focused on the match between their education and the level required for the job, an approach frequently taken in economics research (e.g. Brynin & Longhi, 2009; Verhaest & Omey, 2006).”
• How Useful is the Concept of Skills Mismatch? (2017, unknown): “While some studies indicate that overeducation leads to lower job and life satisfaction (see e.g., Verhaest and Omey, 2006; Congregado et al., 2016; Peiro et al., 2010; Diem, 2015; Piper, 2015), others find that is only the case when overeducation is also accompanied by overskilling (see e.g.,…”
• Perceived overqualification and withdrawal behaviours: Examining the roles of job attitudes and work values (2013, unknown): “Verhaest and Omey (2006) found that employees with surplus education were at higher risk to leave their positions.”
• Overqualified Employees: Making the Best of a Potentially Bad Situation for Individuals and Organizations (2011, unknown): “Alba-Ramirez (1993) showed that overeducated individuals had 16% less duration on their jobs compared to those who were not overeducated, and Verhaest and Omey (2006) showed that overeducated people had greater likelihood to leave their first jobs 3 years later.”