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Direct linkCultrera, 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
Loredana Cultrera; François Rycx; Giulia Santosuosso; Guillaume Vermeylen – Education Economics, 2025
Using a unique pan-European dataset, we rely on two alternative measures of over-education and control stepwise for four groups of covariates in order to interpret the over-education wage penalty in light of theoretical models. Firstly, it appears that a significant fraction (i.e. between 1/5 and 1/3) of PhD holders in Europe are genuinely…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, College Graduates, Job Skills, Employment Qualifications
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
