Arbeitspapier

Measuring overeducation with earnings frontiers and multiply imputed censored income data

In this paper, we remove one serious drawback of the IAB employment sample impeding its applicability to the estimation of earnings frontiers: the censoring of the income data, by multiple imputation. Then, we estimate individual potential income with stochastic earnings frontiers, and we measure overeducation as the ratio between actual income and potential income. It is shown that the measurement of overeducation by this income ratio is a valuable addition to the overeducation literature because the well-established objective or subjective overeducation measures focus on some ordinal matching aspects and ignore the metric income and efficiency aspects of overeducation.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IAB-Discussion Paper ; No. 11/2006

Classification
Wirtschaft
Statistical Simulation Methods: General
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Truncated and Censored Models; Switching Regression Models; Threshold Regression Models
Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Subject
Überqualifikation - Messung
Einkommen
Einkommenshöhe
IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe
Stichprobenfehler
Datenaufbereitung
Datenanalyse
Schätzung

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Jensen, Uwe
Gartner, Hermann
Rässler, Susanne
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB)
(where)
Nürnberg
(when)
2006

Handle
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Jensen, Uwe
  • Gartner, Hermann
  • Rässler, Susanne
  • Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB)

Time of origin

  • 2006

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