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Determinants of Country-Level Employee Overqualification: A Configurational Approach
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Abstract We build on the configurational approach to identify patterns of macro contextual factors leading to high country-level employee overqualification. We differentiate between subjective and objective employee overqualification and establish that each is caused by different configurations of macro fact... view more
We build on the configurational approach to identify patterns of macro contextual factors leading to high country-level employee overqualification. We differentiate between subjective and objective employee overqualification and establish that each is caused by different configurations of macro factors. We also identify country-level overqualification archetypes and link specific countries with respective archetypes. We find that a country's non-vocational education system is a necessary condition for high objective overqualification, while objective overqualification itself is not a necessary condition for perceived overqualification. We discuss theoretical implications and offer policy implications.... view less
Keywords
over qualification; co-worker; level of education attained; education system
Classification
Macroanalysis of the Education System, Economics of Education, Educational Policy
Labor Market Research
Free Keywords
objective overqualification; perceived overqualification; context; QCA; configurations; archetypes; PIAAC
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 111-131
Journal
Economic and Business Review, 24 (2022) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.15458/2335-4216.1301
ISSN
2335-4216
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0