an article by Seamus McGuinness (Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin)and Peter J Sloane (WELMERC, Swansea University; IZA Bonn, Germany; and Flinders University, Australia) published in Economics of Education Review Volume 30 Issue 1 (February 2011)
Abstract
There is much disagreement in the literature over the extent to which graduates are mismatched in the labour market and the reasons for this. In this paper we utilise the Flexible Professional in the Knowledge Society (REFLEX) data set to cast light on these issues, based on data for UK graduates. We find substantial pay penalties for over-education for both sexes and for over-skilling in the case of men only. When both education and skill mismatch variables are included together in the model only over-skilling reduces job satisfaction consistently for both sexes. Using job attributes data it appears that the lower wages of the over-qualified may in part simply represent a compensating wage differential for positive job attributes, while for men at least, there are real costs to being over-skilled.
Hazel's comment:
And this comes at a time when we are told that large numbers of graduates are not only working in jobs for which their level of education/skill is not appropriate but are not employed doing anything!
Has the world gone mad or is it just me?
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