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 …

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 …

This paper contributes to the literature considering the wage effects of educational
mismatch. It uses a large German panel data set for the period 1984–1998 and stresses the …

Using a unique data set of Portuguese workers, we attempt to contribute additional empirical
evidence to the debate on whether or not a discrepancy exists between the educational …

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 …

The central focus of this article is the influence of the applied measure when the impact of
overeducation is analyzed. For a database of Flemish school leavers, four alternative …

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 …