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 …

The paper provides a comprehensive update of the profitability of investment in education at
a global scale. The rate of return patterns established in earlier reviews are upheld: namely …

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 …

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 …

This study replicates models developed by Verdugo and Verdugo (1989) and Sicherman
(1991) to study the wage effects of overschooling. Using the 1985 wave of the Panel Study …

This paper focuses on education and skills mismatch among Italian graduates. Indicators for
over-and under-utilization of education and under-utilization of skills are included as …

The concept of over-education first appeared in economics in the seventies as a concern
regarding the excess of schooling attained by young Americans with respect to labor market …

Several firm-related aspects of employee productivity are analyzed using GSOEP data. The
basic premise is that, as a consequence of frustration, overeducated employees are less …

Groot and Maassen van den Brink (International Journal of Manpower 21, 584, 2000a)
provide a useful summary of the incidence of overeducation and undereducation …

Purpose–This paper aims to highlight the relevance of examining education and skill job‐
worker mismatches as two different, although simultaneous, phenomena of the labor market …