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Direct linkMehta, Aashish; Felipe, Jesus; Quising, Pilipinas; Camingue, Sheila – Economics of Education Review, 2011
A worker is said to be overeducated if he/she has acquired more education than is required to perform his/her job. In the absence of data measuring the number of years of schooling required to perform particular jobs, we propose a new approach to testing for overeducation. Overeducation is confirmed if we observe that education levels rose in jobs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Education Work Relationship, Developing Nations, Outcomes of Education
