Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/283384 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
Research Papers in Economics No. 8/23
Publisher: 
Universität Trier, Fachbereich IV - Volkswirtschaftslehre, Trier
Abstract: 
Overeducated workers are more productive and have higher wages in comparison to their adequately educated coworkers in the same jobs. However, they face a series of challenges in the labor market, including lower wages in comparison to their similarly educated peers who are in correctly matched jobs. Yet, less consensus exists over the adjustment mechanisms to overcome the negative consequences of overeducation. This study examines the hypotheses that overeducated workers sort into performance pay jobs as an adjustment mechanism and that performance pay moderates their wages. Using German Socio-Economic Panel, I show that overeducation associates with a higher likelihood of sorting into performance pay jobs and that performance pay moderates the wages of overeducated workers positively. It also holds in endogenous switching regressions accounting for the potential endogeneity of performance pay. Importantly, the positive role of performance pay is particularly larger for the wages of overeducated women.
Subjects: 
Performance Pay
Overeducation
Wages
Educational Mismatch
Sorting
JEL: 
I21
J24
J31
J33
M52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
553.58 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.