Causal Effects of Educational Mismatch in the Labor Market

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This paper analyses the causal effects of educational mismatch on wages, individual health and job satisfaction. As educational mismatch is subject to unobserved heterogeneity in all of these fields, different identification strategies are applied to derive causal effects. In the wage regressions, an FE model is estimated and new instrumental variables are introduced. Results show that the causal effects of educational mismatch are less severe than the majority of the literature has found when not controlling for unobserved heterogeneity. In the analysis on health and satisfaction effects, causality is achieved by differentiating between overeducated workers after a firm closure and those overeducated for other reasons. The results show that there are no causal effects of educational mismatch on any of these variables.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2013: Wettbewerbspolitik und Regulierung in einer globalen Wirtschaftsordnung - Session: Labour Markets ; No. E17-V3

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Analysis of Education ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Health: General

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kleibrink, Jan
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
• (where): Kiel und Hamburg
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/79839
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET