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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jacobs, Valentine
• Pineda-Hernández, Kevin
• Rycx, François
• Volral, Mélanie

Titel

Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? The moderating role of workers' origin and immigrants' background

Ist Teil von

• Education economics, 2023-11, Vol.31 (6), p.698-724

Ort / Verlag

Abingdon: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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).