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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
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Gowan, Mary A.; Lepak, David – Journal of Employment Counseling, 2007
The authors examined the relationship between an individual's human capital profile--knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics--and compensation before and after a job loss. The results of this study show that the types of human capital that predicted pre-job-loss salary differ from the types that predict reemployment salary. The…
Descriptors: Guidance, Human Capital, Longitudinal Studies, Labor Turnover