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Cultrera, L.; Mahy, B.; Rycx, F.; Vermeylen, G. – Education Economics, 2022
This paper is among the first to investigate the impact of over-education and over-skilling on workers' wages using a unique pan-European database covering twenty-eight countries for the year 2014, namely the CEDEFOP's European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey. Overall, the results suggest the existence of a wage penalty associated with…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Educational Attainment, Wages, Foreign Countries
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Castelló-Climent, Amparo; Doménech, Rafael – Education Economics, 2021
This paper revisits the relationship between human capital and income inequality, using an updated data set on human capital inequality and a novel database on earnings inequality. We find an inverted U-shaped relationship between these two inequality indicators, but with significant differences across countries regarding the turning point.…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Income, Salary Wage Differentials, Technological Advancement
Eyles, Andrew; Major, Lee Elliot; Machin, Stephen – Sutton Trust, 2022
The study of social mobility can be traced back around 100 years, but up until the turn of the millennium it remained largely an academic topic. While a few seminal papers on income mobility had been published in the 1990s, the Sutton Trust's 2005 report, 'Intergenerational Mobility in Europe and North America' signalled a new wave of social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Mobility, Social Change, History