Formal Education, Mismatch and Wages after Transition : Assessing the Impact of Unobserved Heterogeneity Using Matching Estimators

This paper studies the incidence and consequences of the mismatch between formal education and the educational requirements of jobs in Estonia during the years 1997-2003. We find large wage penalties associated with the phenomenon of educational mismatch. Moreover, the incidence and wage penalty of...

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Main Authors: Lamo, Ana, Messina, Julian
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4659