Sobreeducación y Sobrecualificación en los Universitarios Catalanes. Una perspectiva de género

Identifier:  PC:2140

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/PC2140

Authors:  Miravet, Daniel; Mañé Vernet, Ferran

Abstract:
Using a sample composed of more than 19.000 university graduates, who were interviewed 3 years and a half a after graduation, we obtain that the incidence of overeducation is lower for female graduates. Similar results are obtained for overqualification. As expected, earnings equations show that overeducation and overqualification are penalized. Earnings equations provide evidence of a greater impact on earnings of female overeducation, whereas earnings reduction as a result of surplus in management competences is larger for men. Genderdifferences in pay-reduction when graduates suffer simultaneously from education surplus and the highest levels of overqualification tend to disappear, as the latter mitigate the differential impact of overeducation on earnings. The results cannot be accounted for by nor labour market segmentation, neither female preference for certain labour conditions they consider as positive job attributes. On the other hand, it is not possible to reject labour market discrimination. It is neither not possible to reject that differentials in the impact of education and skill mismatches are the result of gender asymmetries in the concept of overeeducation.