A side effect of a university boom: rising incidence of overeducation among tertiary-educated workers in Poland

Jan Baran

No 2016-22, Working Papers from Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw

Abstract: This paper analyses changes in overeducation incidence in Poland in 2006-2014. We find that a rise in number of tertiary educated workers outpaced an increase in number of jobs requiring tertiary education, in result the share of overeducated workers in total employment almost doubled. Overeducation increase is driven mainly by mild overeducation rather than severe overeducation. We find that overeducated workers are usually young with little job experience. Women are found at lower risk of severe overeducation compared to men, but relatively more at risk of mild overeducation. Low risk of overeducation is associated with having studied technical and health programmes. Working part-time, in small firms, in private sector, and living outside big cities in less developed regions are associated with higher risk of overeducation.

Keywords: overeducation; education mismatch; tertiary education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 J21 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2016
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-sog
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.wne.uw.edu.pl/index.php/download_file/2946/ First version, 2016 (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: A side effect of a university boom: rising incidence of overeducation among tertiary educated workers in Poland (2018)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:war:wpaper:2016-22

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Marcin Bąba ().