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Leeves, Gareth D. – Education Economics, 2014
The returns to education have been increasing. It is suggested that high-skilled workers' social capital investment has been adversely affected by the increasing incentives to devote human capital to career development. Lower social capital is linked to reduced economic growth and innovation and higher transaction costs and is detrimental to…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Outcomes of Education, Work Life Expectancy, Family Work Relationship
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Battu, H.; Belfield, C. R.; Sloane, P. J. – Education Economics, 1999
Uses a survey of (British) college graduates from two cohort years (1985 and 1990) to examine determinants of overeducation (mismatch for jobs requiring degrees). Cross-sectional measures of mismatch obscure significant changes for individuals over time. Job satisfaction and earnings are significantly adversely affected by mismatch. (23…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries