Measuring overeducation with earnings frontiers and multiply imputed censored income data

Uwe Jensen, Hermann Gartner and Susanne Rässler

No 200611, IAB-Discussion Paper from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]

Abstract: "In this paper, we remove one serious drawback of the IAB employment sample impeding its applicability to the estimation of earnings frontiers: the censoring of the income data, by multiple imputation. Then, we estimate individual potential income with stochastic earnings frontiers, and we measure overeducation as the ratio between actual income and potential income. It is shown that the measurement of overeducation by this income ratio is a valuable addition to the overeducation literature because the well-established objective or subjective overeducation measures focus on some ordinal matching aspects and ignore the metric income and efficiency aspects of overeducation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Datenanalyse; Datenaufbereitung; Messfehler; Einkommen; Einkommenshöhe; IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe; Imputationsverfahren; Messung; Schätzung; Überqualifikation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C15 C24 C81 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2006
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