Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? The moderating role of workers’ origin and immigrants’ background
We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and wages. Our results show that the over-education wage premium is higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over-education outweighs the corresponding wage premium differential, we conclude that over-educated native workers are in fact underpaid to a greater extent than their over-educated immigrant counterparts. This conclusion is refined by sensitivity analyses, when testing the role of immigrants’ background... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
Schlagwörter: | Sciences pédagogiques et agogiques / Econométrie et méthodes statistiques :théorie et applications / Belgium / Immigrants / linked panel data / over-education / productivity / wages |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28538914 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/361560 |
We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and wages. Our results show that the over-education wage premium is higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over-education outweighs the corresponding wage premium differential, we conclude that over-educated native workers are in fact underpaid to a greater extent than their over-educated immigrant counterparts. This conclusion is refined by sensitivity analyses, when testing the role of immigrants’ background (e.g. region of birth, immigrant generation). ; SCOPUS: ar.j ; info:eu-repo/semantics/published