Demand and Supply of Skilled Labour and Persistence of Young Workers’ Overeducation in Europe: Mediterranean Countries versus the Netherlands

According to theoretical and empirical evidence, young workers are more likely to be overeducated than adult ones, especially in countries where the educational attainment of young people is increasing rapidly and the school-to-work transition is difficult and lengthy. Nonetheless, if overeducation were simply a transitory phenomenon (an «entry condition» on the labour market) and expected to disappear during working life, it would not be a crucial problem. The aim of this paper is to investigate the transitory versus persistent nature of young workers’ overeducation in different European coun... Mehr ...