This chapter surveys the economics literature on overeducation. The original motivation to
study this topic reports that the strong increase in the number of college graduates in the …

This paper presents a review of the literature on overeducation. The paper assesses the
consistency of overeducation within the context of a number of theoretical frameworks …

Ensuring a good match between skills acquired in education and on the job and those
required in the labour market is essential to make the most of investments in human capital …

Drawing on empirical studies from five countries spanning an interval of two decades,
regularities in the incidence of over-and undereducation are outlined, as well as …

Nifo A. and Vecchione G. Do institutions play a role in skilled migration? The case of Italy,
Regional Studies. This paper is based on the idea that the migration choices of the highly …

This paper contains a meta-analysis of studies on overeducation and undereducation in the
labor market. It is found that of the four different definitions of overeducation distinguished in …

Two theories of over-qualification are considered, namely mismatch, whereby workers do
not find the most appropriate jobs for their skills, because of imperfect information or labour …

This paper addresses the issue of overeducation and undereducation using for the first time
a British dataset which contains explicit information on the level of required education to …

This paper uses a survey of graduates from two cohort years (1985 and 1990) to examine
the determinants of overeducation in the UK. We determine whether or not graduates are …

The theory of career mobility (Sicherman and Galor, Journal of Political Economy, 98 (1),
169–92, 1990) claims that wage penalties for overeducated workers are compensated by …