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Does Over-Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally? The Moderating Role of Workers' Origin and Immigrants' Background
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Valentine Jacobs; Kevin Pineda-Hernández; François Rycx; Mélanie Volral – Education Economics, 2023
We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and wages. Our results show that the over-education wage premium is higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over-education outweighs the corresponding wage premium…
Descriptors: Salary Wage Differentials, Immigrants, Labor Force, Human Capital