Education Economics (2022) Jacobs Pineda Rycx Volral_Does over education raise productivity and wages equally The moderating role of workers origin and immigrants background.pdf
[en] We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and wages. Our results show that the over-education wage premium is higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over-education outweighs the corresponding wage premium differential, we conclude that over-educated native workers are in fact underpaid to a greater extent than their over-educated immigrant counterparts. This conclusion is refined by sensitivity analyses, when testing the role of immigrants’ background (e.g. region of birth, immigrant generation).
Disciplines :
Special economic topics (health, labor, transportation...)
Author, co-author :
Jacobs, Valentine; CEBRIG and DULBEA, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium ; Soci&ter, Université de Mons (UMONS), Mons, Belgium
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; CEBRIG, DULBEA and National Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium ; Soci&ter, Université de Mons (UMONS), Mons, Belgium
Rycx, François; CEBRIG, DULBEA, IRES, GLO, Soci&ter and IZA, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
Volral, Mélanie ; Université de Mons - UMONS > Faculté Warocqué d'Economie et de Gestion > Service d'Economie
Language :
English
Title :
Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? The moderating role of workers’ origin and immigrants’ background
The authors are most grateful to Statistics Belgium for giving them access to the data. Financial support from the Belgian Federal Science Office (BELSPO, IMMILAB project) is also kindly acknowledged.
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