Not the right job, but a secure one

Luis Ortiz
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Luis Ortiz: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, luis.ortiz@upf.edu

Work, Employment & Society, 2010, vol. 24, issue 1, 47-64

Abstract: Recent educational expansion in many OECD countries has renewed interest in over-education. The educational system has often been highlighted as the main source of over-education, whereas the role of the labour market has been neglected. Using European Community Household Panel data on three countries with similar systems of education but different levels of temporary employment, the association between job security and over-education is explored here. The results show that in quite segmented labour markets, where a permanent contract is an especially valuable asset, human capital might be traded off for job security. Over-education thus becomes paradoxically likelier among permanent workers than among temporary ones.

Keywords: educational attainment; labour market; occupational attainment; over-education; systems of education; temporary employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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