Measuring Labour Mismatch in Europe

Antonio Morgado, Tiago Sequeira, Marcelo Santos, Alexandra Lopes () and Ana Reis

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2016, vol. 129, issue 1, No 11, 179 pages

Abstract: Abstract We calculate aggregate and comparable measures of mismatch in the labour market for 30 European countries. These indicators measure vertical mismatch (related to the level of education, e.g. overeducation, and undereducation) and horizontal mismatch (related to the field of education) and are comparable across countries and through time. In European countries, between 15 % to nearly 35 % of workers have a job for which they have more (or less) qualifications than the usual level. Approximately 20 % to nearly 50 % work in a job for which they do not have the usual field qualification. There is a great variability on mismatch across European labour markets. Undereducation affects more workers than overeducation in most European countries. Low correlations between mismatch and unemployment indicate that mismatch should be regarded as an additional informative variable, thus useful to characterize labour markets.

Keywords: Education; Overeducation; Undereducation; Mismatch; Labour market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 O50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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