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Educational mismatch in Europe at the turn of the century : measurement, intensity and evolution
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Bustillo, Rafael Muñoz de, Sarkar, Sudipa, Sebastian, Raquel and Antón, José-Ignacio (2018) Educational mismatch in Europe at the turn of the century : measurement, intensity and evolution. International Journal of Manpower, 39 (8). pp. 977-995. doi:10.1108/IJM-10-2018-0327 ISSN 0143-7720.
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Official URL: https://doi.org./10.1108/IJM-10-2018-0327
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present the stylised facts of over-education among European graduates over time (1998–2013), paying special attention to the measurement issues.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors use two different sources, the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies 2012, and the European Union Labour Force Survey 1998–2013, with two different aims. The authors employ the first one to make a detailed analysis of the different forms of measuring over-education and its implications in terms of the result obtained. The analysis of the second one responds to studying the evolution and characteristics of over-education in Europe.
Findings
In the first place, the paper provides evidence of the high level of sensitivity of the level of measured over-education to the type of methodology used. Such difference is even higher when the authors focus on skills vs educational mismatch. The work also shows how with all their shortcomings, the measures of over-education used in the analysis point to the existence of convergence in over-education levels among the European countries of the sample (only interrupted by the crisis), in a context of reduction of over-education rates in many countries.
Practical implications
Researchers should be particularly careful when estimating over-education, because of the strong implications in terms of the so different results obtained when choosing between competing methods.
Originality/value
The analysis abounds in the implications of the use of different methodologies of estimating over-education in terms of both size and ranking among European countries. The production of long-run and updated estimates of over-education for a large sample of countries is done using a homogenous database and different estimation methods.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | |||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Employment Research | |||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Labor market -- European Union countries, Education -- Statistics -- European Union countries | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Manpower | |||||||||
| Publisher: | Emerald Group Publishing Limited | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 0143-7720 | |||||||||
| Official Date: | 5 November 2018 | |||||||||
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| Volume: | 39 | |||||||||
| Number: | 8 | |||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 977-995 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1108/IJM-10-2018-0327 | |||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 October 2018 | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 16 January 2019 | |||||||||
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