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 …

Qualitative mismatches arise when the qualifications or skills of workers, individually or in
the aggregate, are different from the qualifications or skills required or specified for their …

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 …

This article focuses on the explanation of cross-country variation in graduate overeducation
using a multilevel analysis. We use data from representative surveys among graduates in 13 …

This article provides an overview of empirical and theoretical research on dual labor
markets. It revisits the labor-market effects of dual employment protection legislation as well …

We provide a new channel through which monetary policy has distributional consequences
at business cycle frequencies. We show that an unexpected monetary easing increases …

Why do more educated workers experience lower unemployment rates and lower
employment volatility? Empirically, these workers have similar job finding rates but much …

This essay delivers two main innovations with respect to the existing literature. First, and
foremost, by extending the work of Nicaise (2010) relative to the reservation wage to the …

Los jóvenes enfrentan obstáculos especiales en inserción productiva. Indicadores laborales
como el desempleo, el empleo precario o los ingresos son significativamente peores en …

This paper investigates the distributional and efficiency consequences of an environmental
tax reform that distributes the revenue from a green tax according to varying labour tax rates …