Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/158820 
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Year of Publication: 
2016
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal for Labour Market Research [ISSN:] 2510-5027 [Volume:] 49 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2016 [Pages:] 253-268
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
Overqualification signals a mismatch between jobs' educational requirements and workers' qualifications implying potential productivity losses at the macro and the micro level. This study explores how the family background of German graduates affects the probability to hold a job that does not require tertiary education, i.e. to be overqualified. Potential pathways of the family background effects are discussed and proxy variables for the mediating factors ability and skills, study characteristics, social capital, financial capital, and aspiration are incorporated into the empirical analysis. Graduates from high status families are found to be less likely to be overqualified. The unconditional social overqualification gap amounts to 7.4 percentage points. Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions of the overqualification gap show that differences in ability and skills, study characteristics, and social capital are important mediators of the family background effects.
Subjects: 
Hochschulabsolventen
Überqualifikation
Intergenerationsmobilität
soziale Herkunft
sozioökonomische Faktoren
Berufsverlauf
Sozialkapital
Persistenz
unterwertige Beschäftigung
kognitive Fähigkeit
JEL: 
I23
I24
J24
J62
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Article

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