Jan Kleibrink
Inept or Badly Matched? — Effects of Educational Mismatch in the Labor Market
University of Duisburg-Essen
abstract negative wage effects educational mismatch become stylized fact whether explained differences unobserved productivity poor matching still answered conclusively empirical analysis based data g erman ocio e conomic p anel nternational dult l iteracy urvey broad econometric strategy applied solve problem unobserved heterogeneity reveal mechanism underlying wage differences matched mismatched workers results show wage differentials explained poor matching labor market rejecting hypothesis mismatched workers compensate unobserved productivity differences