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 …

Education‐job mismatches are reported to have serious effects on wages and other labour
market outcomes. Such results are often cited in support of assignment theory, but can also …

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 article examines the reasons for the observed discrepancy between workers' actual and
required levels of schooling and the resulting differences in returns to schooling," …

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 …

The match between a worker's education and job has received much attention in the
literature. Studies have focused on the match between years of schooling and the schooling …

Research indicates that a significant proportion of the US work force (between 11% and
40% of white males) have more education than is actually required for their jobs, ie are …

The objective of this article is to explain the job match, which is assessed by comparing
attained education and job-required education as reported by workers. We frame our …