Overeducation and scarring effects on the wages of young graduates

The authors’ goal in this paper is to study if there are long-run effects on the wages of those workers who entered the labour market overeducated but who have, over time, been able to overcome this situation byobtaining a job for which they are correctly matched.The main result the authors obtain i...

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Autores: Eguía Peña, María Begoña, Rodríguez González, Carlos, Serrano Pérez, Felipe
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
OAI Identifier:oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/70556
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10810/70556
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:overeducation
wages
scarring effects
Spain
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Sumario:The authors’ goal in this paper is to study if there are long-run effects on the wages of those workers who entered the labour market overeducated but who have, over time, been able to overcome this situation byobtaining a job for which they are correctly matched.The main result the authors obtain indicates that the wages of those who manage to overcome an initial situation of overeducation do converge but very slowly to the respective wages of those others that entered the labour market correctly matched from the beginning. The authors consider this result to point towards the existence of scarring effects in wages induced by an initial situation of overeducation. The authors also present evidence, beyond education, about the influence that the occupational characteristics that a worker has on wages.