Wage Effects of Educational Mismatch According to Workers’ Origin: The Role of Demographics and Firm Characteristics

Valentine Jacobs, Francois Rycx and Mélanie Volral

No 966, GLO Discussion Paper Series from Global Labor Organization (GLO)

Abstract: This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers’ origin using a sizeable, detailed matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch, the results show that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin, suffer a wage penalty compared to their well-matched former classmates. However, the magnitude of this wage penalty is found to vary considerably depending on workers’ origin. In addition, the estimates show that origin-based differences in over-education wage penalties significantly depend on both demographics (workers’ region of birth, education, and gender) and employer characteristics (firm size and collective bargaining).

Keywords: Immigrants; educational mismatch; wage gap; linked employer-employee data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 I26 J15 J24 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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