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ERIC Number: EJ1403599
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 27
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0964-5292
EISSN: EISSN-1469-5782
Does Over-Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally? The Moderating Role of Workers' Origin and Immigrants' Background
Valentine Jacobs; Kevin Pineda-Hernández; François Rycx; Mélanie Volral
Education Economics, v31 n6 p698-724 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 differential, we conclude that over-educated native workers are in fact underpaid to a greater extent than their over-educated immigrant counterparts. This conclusion is refined by sensitivity analyses, when testing the role of immigrants' background (e.g. region of birth, immigrant generation).
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Belgium
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