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Overqualification of graduates: assessing the role of family background
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Heidelberg: Springer, 2016.
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Abstract
- Studies on the underlying mechanisms of social mobility commonly find that half of the intergenerational earnings persistence remains unexplained. Focusing on the phenomenon of overqualification, this study examines a transmission channel that might operate beyond the mechanisms previously analysed. I explore how the family background of university graduates affects the probability to hold a job that does not require a tertiary degree, i.e. to be overqualified. Potential pathways of the family background effects are discussed and proxy variables for the mediating factors cognitive skills, study characteristics, social capital, financial capital, and aspiration are incorporated into the empirical analysis. Graduates from families with a high socioeconomic status are found to be less likely to be overqualified. The unconditional social overqualification gap amounts to 7.4 percentage points. Non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions show that roughly 60% of the social overqualification gap can be attributed to group differences in observable characteristics. Differences in cognitive skills, study characteristics, and social capital are found to be important mediators of the family background effects.
- Subjects :
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Economics and Econometrics
Labour economics
Higher education
I23
I24
J24
Berufsverlauf
jel:J62
sozioökonomische Faktoren
jel:J24
jel:I23
Hochschulabsolventen
jel:I24
Financial capital
Phenomenon
unterwertige Beschäftigung
0502 economics and business
Economics
ddc:330
Sozialkapital
soziale Herkunft
Cognitive skill
050207 economics
Intergenerationsmobilität
Proxy (statistics)
Socioeconomic status
Productivity
Persistenz
business.industry
overqualification,overeducation,family background,intergenerational mobility,Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition
05 social sciences
050209 industrial relations
Overqualification
Social mobility
Überqualifikation
Human resource management
Industrial relations
Demographic economics
J62
Psychology
business
kognitive Fähigkeit
Social capital
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....584a39a67d0e6ccfe08356fc2326f529