Firms and Overeducation: Influence on Employee Satisfaction and Firm Productivity

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Firms and Overeducation: Influence on Employee Satisfaction and Firm Productivity
Original language description
The aim of the paper is to evaluate effects of overeducation and undereducation from the employee's and firm's perspective. In case of workers, authors use data of the PIAAC (Programme for International Assessment of Adult, first round, 2008 - 2013) to show effects of overeducation, with focus on the Czech Republic. Methodological approach of the paper is based on regression using a classic ORU model including variables of education, earnings, age, gender, economic sector of the company and job satisfaction. In the case of workers we analyse their earnings and returns to their education, with aim to find economic losses caused by overeducation and undereducation for employees. Results of our research show that returns to years of overeducation are lower than returns to required education; it means that overeducated workers get higher wages than their co-workers but lower wages than workers with the same education working in jobs requiring this level of education. Similarly, workers wit
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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