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T1 Overeducation and its effects on wages: a closer look at the spanish regions
T2 Sobreeducación y sus efectos sobre los salarios: una mirada a las regiones españolas
A1 Hernández Lahiguera, Laura
A1 Serrano Martínez, Lorenzo
K1 Overeducation
K1 Education mismatch
K1 Returns to education
K1 Quantile regression
K1 Regional labour markets
K1 Sobreeducación
K1 Desajuste educativo
K1 Rendimientos a la educación
K1 Mercados de trabajo regionales
K1 Economía
K1 Economics
K1 Geografía
K1 Geography
K1 Sociología
K1 Sociology
AB This paper uses data from the 2004 to 2009 Living Conditions Survey(LCS) to analyze the wage gap between the adjusted and the overqualified employees in the Spanish regions using standard Mincer equations, quantile regression and the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. The results indicate that in Spain there is a 28% difference between the gross hourly wage between the overqualified and well-matched employees, of which 25 percentage points correspond to thediscrimination effect and only three percentage points correspond to the characteristics of the individuals and the firms they work in. These results show that the effects of overeducation on the regional economies are genuine and substantial and present a considerable heterogeneity.
PB Asociación Española de Ciencia Regional (AECR)
SN 2340-2717
YR 2012
FD 2012
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/27060
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/27060
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 24-abr-2024