Education-Occupation Mismatch: Is There an Income Penalty?

Autor/inn/en	Nordin, Martin; Persson, Inga; Rooth, Dan-Olof
Titel	Education-Occupation Mismatch: Is There an Income Penalty?
Quelle	In: Economics of Education Review, 29 (2010) 6, S.1047-1059 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-7757
DOI	10.1016/j.econedurev.2010.05.005
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Income; Females; Work Experience; Cognitive Ability; Education Work Relationship; College Graduates; Comparative Analysis; Economics; Educational Attainment; Compensation (Remuneration); Intellectual Disciplines; Majors (Students); Sweden; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Einkommen; Weibliches Geschlecht; Employment experience; Job experience; Occupational experience; Berufserfahrung; Denkfähigkeit; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Volkswirtschaftslehre; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Abfindung; Kompensation; Lohnausgleich; Geisteswissenschaften; Schweden; USA
Abstract	This paper adds to the sparse literature on the consequences of education-occupation mismatches. It examines the income penalty for field of education-occupation mismatches for men and women with higher education degrees in Sweden and reveals that the penalty for such mismatches is large for both men and women. For mismatched men the income penalty is about twice as large as that found for US men, whereas for women the penalty is of about the same size as for US women. Controlling for cognitive ability further establishes that the income penalty is not caused by a sorting by ability, at least for Swedish men. The income penalty for men decreases with work experience, which is an indication that education-specific skills and work experience are substitutes to some extent. (Contains 8 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10