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Cultrera, 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
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Gilboa, Yaakov – Journal of Education and Work, 2023
Much research has been made in recent years on the effect of over and under education on earnings. In this paper, I examine the validity of the assumption that the return to over (under) education is independent of the level of education. I use data from the PIAAC survey to estimate the return to education. The findings show that while this…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Educational Attainment, Wages, Employment Qualifications
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Štefánik, Miroslav; Horvát, Peter – European Educational Research Journal, 2015
This article provides evidence about differences in the recent tertiary education expansion in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia. Focusing on these differences, we have examined private returns to tertiary education acquired before and after the tertiary education expansion. We compare these returns as follows: Austria with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Access to Education, Labor Market
Akhmedjonov, Alisher R. – RAND Corporation, 2010
Innovation is the key to productivity growth and prosperity. Most empirical cross-country analysis of the determinants of innovation focus mainly on developed countries. The objective of this study is to fill this gap in the research and analyze the determinants of innovation in transition countries of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Innovation, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment
Akhmedjonov, Alisher – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Innovation is the key to productivity growth and prosperity. Most empirical cross-country analysis of the determinants of innovation focus mainly on developed countries. The objective of this study is to fill this gap in the research and analyze the determinants of innovation in transition countries of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Educational Development, Models