Overqualification: Major or minor mismatch?

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 114-121

  Brynin, Malcolm ^a   Longhi, Simonetta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comparative analysis; Overqualification; Wages

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN CAPITAL; PROBABILITY; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; SPATIAL MISMATCH; WAGE DETERMINATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 57349128337     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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