Article 2003

Overeducation, regional labor markets, and spatial flexibility

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Büchel, Felix
 VH
Van Ham, Maarten
Journal of Urban Economics
Journal · Vol. 53 · Issue 3 · pp. 482-493
Abstract

For most workers, access to suitable employment is severely restricted by the fact that they look for jobs in the regional labor market rather than the global one. In this paper we analyze how macrolevel opportunities (regional market characteristics) and microlevel restrictions (the extent to which job searchers are restricted to the regional market) can help to explain the phenomenon of overeducation. We use a two-step procedure to control selective access to employment. The results show that the size of the labor market is an important factor in avoiding overeducation. © 2003 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.

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Overeducation Job search Spatial flexibility

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Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany, Faculty of Economics, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Dept. Longitudinal Data/Microanal., German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany
Department of Geography and Planning, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Funding & Acknowledgements
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, NWO
Grant: 42513002
This paper was written while Maarten van Ham was a member of the Urban Research Center Utrecht (URU), Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University. His research was supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO grant 42513002), and by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany, which subsidized a two-month research period as a guest scientist. The paper benefited substantially from a methodological discussion with Winfried Pohlmeier. Other helpful comments came from Ulrich Rendtel, Jan Ondrich, Götz Rohwer, Ulrich Pötter, Viktor Steiner, Bernd Fitzenberger, and from the Editor and two anonymous referees.
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