Research on the returns to higher education has provided so far no definite evidence on the actual chance that new entrants in the labour market will be increasingly offered positions for which they are overeducated or over-skilled. Based on data on employees from the 28 EU countries collected by the CEDEFOP ESJ survey this paper contributes to the debate by focusing on the nature of undertaken jobs and testing whether younger university graduates from EU countries are over-exposed to the risk of being in a job that poorly matches their skills and competences. Aggregate analyses show that younger university graduates have a higher probability to be in a job requiring a university degree and to be in a content-rich job compared to both older graduates and younger employees without a tertiary qualification. However, the higher probability of younger graduates to be in a position that requires a university degree is driven by Mediterranean countries, whereas younger university graduates in countries close to the model of liberal market economies suffer from poorer job contents.
Is there a risk of segregation into “bad jobs” for younger university graduates in EU countries?
SGOBBI, Francesca
2016-01-01
Abstract
Research on the returns to higher education has provided so far no definite evidence on the actual chance that new entrants in the labour market will be increasingly offered positions for which they are overeducated or over-skilled. Based on data on employees from the 28 EU countries collected by the CEDEFOP ESJ survey this paper contributes to the debate by focusing on the nature of undertaken jobs and testing whether younger university graduates from EU countries are over-exposed to the risk of being in a job that poorly matches their skills and competences. Aggregate analyses show that younger university graduates have a higher probability to be in a job requiring a university degree and to be in a content-rich job compared to both older graduates and younger employees without a tertiary qualification. However, the higher probability of younger graduates to be in a position that requires a university degree is driven by Mediterranean countries, whereas younger university graduates in countries close to the model of liberal market economies suffer from poorer job contents.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
