Career Prospects of Overeducated Workers in West Germany

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ID2235151
AutoresMatthias Pollmann‐schult (0000-0002-0010-1667, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, autor correspondente), M Pollmann-Schult
Ano2004
Volume20
Fascículo4
Páginas321-331
Data de publicação2004-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0266-7215 • E-ISSN: 1468-2672
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/esr/jch027
OpenAlexW2079733993
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas3

Individual dynamics of overeducation are analysed for vocationally trained workers using work history data from the German Life History Study (GLHS). The primary focus of interest is whether overeducation is a persistent or a temporary phenomenon for the affected workers. To analyse this question, we compare the career patterns of vocationally trained overeducated workers with those of their unskilled co-workers with respect to upward mobility to higher skilled jobs, horizontal mobility to subsequent unskilled jobs and downward mobility to unemployment. Our results from parametric hazard models suggest that for workers who have completed initial vocational training of intermediate or high quality, overeducation is not a persistent labour market status. These workers have significantly better career prospects than their unskilled co-workers. In contrast, the career chances of overeducated workers with low-quality initial vocational training and unskilled workers are similar. Thus, for the former, overeducation proves to be a long-run phenomenon.

Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Hazard · Labour economics · Phenomenon · Unemployment · Vocational education · Work (physics) · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Retirement, Disability, and Employment