Causal Effects of Educational Mismatch in the Labor Market

Jan Kleibrink ()

VfS Annual Conference 2013 (Duesseldorf): Competition Policy and Regulation in a Global Economic Order from Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association

Abstract: This paper analyses the causal effects of educational mismatch on wages, individual health and job satisfaction. As educational mismatch is subject to unobserved heterogeneity in all of these fields, different identification strategies are applied to derive causal effects. In the wage regressions, an FE model is estimated and new instrumental variables are introduced. Results show that the causal effects of educational mismatch are less severe than the majority of the literature has found when not controlling for unobserved heterogeneity. In the analysis on health and satisfaction effects, causality is achieved by differentiating between overeducated workers after a firm closure and those overeducated for other reasons. The results show that there are no causal effects of educational mismatch on any of these variables.

JEL-codes: I10 I21 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Working Paper: Causal Effects of Educational Mismatch in the Labor Market (2013)
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