Skill mismatches and wages among European university graduates

Elena Bárcena-Mart�n, Santiago Budr�a and Ana Moro-Egido
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Applied Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 19, issue 15, 1471-1475

Abstract: This article uses comparable international data to examine the extent and wage effects of skill mismatches among European university graduates. The results show that the mismatched earn on average 11.7% less than their well-matched counterparts. This effect, however, cannot be regarded as constant across the conditional earnings distribution: workers with lower unobserved earnings capacity tend to be exposed to greater wage losses when they end up in mismatched jobs.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2011.633886

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