Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/243525 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 966
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers’ origin using a sizeable, detailed matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch, the results show that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin, suffer a wage penalty compared to their well-matched former classmates. However, the magnitude of this wage penalty is found to vary considerably depending on workers’ origin. In addition, the estimates show that origin-based differences in over-education wage penalties significantly depend on both demographics (workers’ region of birth, education, and gender) and employer characteristics (firm size and collective bargaining).
Subjects: 
Immigrants
educational mismatch
wage gap
linked employer-employee data
JEL: 
I24
I26
J15
J24
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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