The impact of Surplus Skills on Earnings: Extending the Over-education Model to Language Proficiency

This paper examines whether the framework developed in the educational mismatch field of research can be generalized to language skills. It uses data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database and both ‘‘Worker Self-Assessment’’ and ‘‘Realized Matches’’ procedures to quantify expecte...

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Main Authors: Chiswick, Barry, Miller, Paul
Format: Journal Article
Published: Pergamon 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11061