Influence of Education-job Mismatch on Wages among Higher Education Graduates

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• 作者：Ana-Maria Zamfir ; Monica Mihaela Matei ; Eliza Olivia Lungu
• 关键词：Higher education ; education-job mismatch ; wage penalty ; REFLEX
• 刊名：Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：10 October, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：89
• 期：Complete
• 页码：293-297
• 全文大小：429 K

文摘

Our paper explores the way in which the education-job mismatches impacts the working benefits of higher education graduates. In order to estimate the ¡°wage penalty¡±, we analyse REFLEX data set, which includes information on early career outcomes of school leavers graduating ISCED 5 in 1999/2000. The survey was carried out in 2005 among higher graduates from 14 countries. Our cross-country analysis compares the wage distribution of matched graduates with that of the mismatched graduates using nonparametric kernel methods to handle a mix of continuous, unordered, and ordered factor data types. The obtained results show a negative effect of the education-job mismatch on wages in most of the countries.