Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34537 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2938
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper uses longitudinal data from Australia to examine the extent to which overskilling - the extent to which work-related skills and abilities are utilized in current employment - is a transitory phenomenon. The results suggest that while overskilled workers are much more likely to want to quit their current job, they are also relatively unconfident of finding an improved job match. Furthermore, some of the greater mobility observed among overskilled workers is due to involuntary job separations, and even in instances where job separations are voluntary, the majority of moves do not result in improved skills matches.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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