TY - JOUR
T1 - The role of overeducation and horizontal mismatch for gender inequalities in labor income of higher education graduates in Europe
AU - Passaretta, Giampiero
AU - Sauer, Petra
AU - Schwabe, Ulrike
AU - Weßling, Katarina
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the CIDER (College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research) Micro Group “Gender inequality in graduates’ employment prospects”.
PY - 2023/3
Y1 - 2023/3
N2 - Evidence on gender inequality in the labor market is extensive. However, little is known about the potential role of overeducation and horizontal mismatch in explaining women’s labor-market disadvantages. We draw on recent data from the Eurograduate pilot survey to investigate the role of overeducation, field-of-study mismatch and field-specific overskilling for gender gaps in labor income in the European landscape. We found considerable variations in the extent of both gender earning gaps (GEGs) and wage gaps (GWGs) across countries. However, our decomposition analyses show that neither overeducation nor horizontal mismatch contribute to explaining these gender gaps. The lack of mediation seems related to either the absence of gender differences in overeducation and horizontal mismatch, or to the nonexistence of income penalties associated with the mismatch.
AB - Evidence on gender inequality in the labor market is extensive. However, little is known about the potential role of overeducation and horizontal mismatch in explaining women’s labor-market disadvantages. We draw on recent data from the Eurograduate pilot survey to investigate the role of overeducation, field-of-study mismatch and field-specific overskilling for gender gaps in labor income in the European landscape. We found considerable variations in the extent of both gender earning gaps (GEGs) and wage gaps (GWGs) across countries. However, our decomposition analyses show that neither overeducation nor horizontal mismatch contribute to explaining these gender gaps. The lack of mediation seems related to either the absence of gender differences in overeducation and horizontal mismatch, or to the nonexistence of income penalties associated with the mismatch.
KW - education mismatch
KW - Eurograduate pilot survey
KW - gender earnings gap
KW - gender wage gap
KW - higher education graduates
KW - horizontal mismatch
KW - overeducation
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U2 - 10.1177/17454999231158042
DO - 10.1177/17454999231158042
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85150509710
SN - 1745-4999
VL - 18
SP - 123
EP - 146
JO - Research in Comparative and International Education
JF - Research in Comparative and International Education
IS - 1
ER -