Educational mismatch and the earnings distribution

Keith A. Bender; Kristen  Roche

doi:10.1002/soej.12282

Educational mismatch and the earnings distribution

Keith A. Bender, Kristen Roche

Mount Mary University

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Abstract

This article focuses on the interrelationship between educational mismatch and earnings, taking three new approaches. First, we examine decompositions of the mismatch wage gap, finding that characteristics explain less than half of the mismatch penalty. Second, we use unconditional quantile regression to examine the mismatch penalty across the earnings distribution, showing that the penalty shrinks as the position in the earnings distribution increases. Third, we decompose the differentials using quantile decompositions. Different reasons for mismatch show heterogeneity in our results, with larger penalties for being mismatched due to working conditions, location, family, and no available job.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	441-456
Number of pages	16
Journal	Southern Economic Journal
Volume	85
Issue number	2
Early online date	3 Sept 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/soej.12282
Publication status	Published - Oct 2018

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Thanks to the participants of the 2015 New Directions in Human Capital Theory Workshop at the University of Birmingham UK, the 2016 Midwestern Economic Society Annual Meetings, the 2017 Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference, seminar participants at the University of Aberdeen and to the editor and the two referees for helpful comments on the paper. The usual disclaimer applies.

Keywords

educational mismatch
earnings
decomposition
quantile regression

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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Bender, K. A. and Roche, K. (2018), Educational mismatch and the earnings distribution. Southern Economic Journal, 85: 441-456 which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/soej.12282. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
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Keith Bender
- Business School, Economics - SIRE Chair in Economics
- Business School, Centre for Labour Market Research (CeLMR)
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