The term skills mismatch is very broad and can relate to many forms of labour market friction,
including vertical mismatch, skill gaps, skill shortages, field of study (horizontal) mismatch …

The transition from higher education to the labour market is an important period for
youngsters, characterised by extensive changes which act as triggers for learning …

A recurring question in public and scientific debates is whether occupation-specific skills
enhance labor market outcomes. Is it beneficial to have an educational degree that is linked …

One benefit of authoring a text that has met the test of the market is the opportunity to revise.
Revision provides for improvement—to delete the archaic and install the novel, to rectify …

This study investigates whether young unemployed graduates who accept a job below their
level of education accelerate or delay the transition into a job that matches their level of …

Occupational mismatch has been a hot topic in the economics literature in recent decades;
however, no consensus has been reached on how to conceptualise and measure this …

Graduate employability has attracted considerable attention, unsurprisingly so: The
transition associated with graduation presents a series of strong events, that is likely to …

We show that cyclical skill mismatch, defined as mismatch between the skills supplied by
college graduates and skills demanded by hiring industries, is an important mechanism …

This paper tests whether overeducation at the beginning of a graduate's job career is a trap
into continuing overeducation later on, or a stepping stone to a job that matches the …

We compare three theoretical models for the relationship between schooling and labor
market outcomes. On the one hand, the job competition model, which views education as a …