Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34751 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3061
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Catalonia's economy is characterized by linguistic diversity and provides a unique opportunity to measure the incidence of language proficiency on over-education, particularly, whether individuals with deficient language skills tend to acquire more formal skills or, on the contrary, become discouraged to attend school. Descriptive evidence suggests the latter, that individuals with better language knowledge are more likely to be over-educated. However, estimating a model that controls for individuals' socio-demographic characteristics reveals the opposite: better language knowledge decreases over-education. This effect, although robust to accounting for endogeneity of language knowledge and significant at the individual level, is mostly non-significant on average.
Subjects: 
Over-education
language
immigration
skill premium
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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