Overeducation and wages: the role of cognitive skills and personality traits.

Autor/in	Palczynska, Marta
Titel	Overeducation and wages: the role of cognitive skills and personality traits. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Überbildung und Löhne: die Rolle von kognitiven Fähigkeiten und Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen.
Quelle	In: Baltic journal of economics, 21 (2021) 1, S. 85-111 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2334-4385
DOI	10.1080/1406099x.2021.1950388
Schlagwörter	Kognitive Kompetenz; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Lebensalter; Sekundarstufe II; Bildungsabschluss; Schulabschluss; Computerkenntnisse; Einkommensunterschied; Mismatch; Qualifikationsanforderung; Unterwertige Beschäftigung; Überqualifikation; Auswirkung; Einflussfaktor; Hochschulabsolvent; Abhängig Beschäftigter; Junger Erwachsener; Polen
Abstract	"This article investigates the extent to which personality traits and cognitive skills can be seen as potential determinants of overeducation, and can explain the overeducation wage penalty. Using a representative survey of the Polish working-age population with well-established measures of cognitive skills and personality traits, I find that accounting for personality and cognitive skills does not change the size and the statistical significance of overeducation wage penalty estimates. My results also demonstrate that personality is one of the contributors to the risk of being overeducated among workers aged 18-29, but not among workers aged 30-68. Among younger workers, agreeable individuals are more likelyto be overeducated, while conscientious individuals are less likely to be overeducated. Moreover, lower numeracy skills are associated with higher probability of being overeducated." The study refers to the period 2011-2015 (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2025/3