ECIN Replication Package for "The Increasing Penalty to Occupation-Education Mismatch"

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Hugh Cassidy, Kansas State University; Amanda Gaulke, Kansas State University

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Project Description

Summary: College-educated workers in jobs unrelated to their degree generally receive lower wages compared to well-matched workers. Our analysis of data from the National Survey of College Graduates shows that although the rate of this mismatch declined only slightly (18% to 17%), the wage penalty increased by 56% between 1993 and 2019. Changes in the composition of field of study over time, as well as declining returns to ``excess'' education above what is required for the occupation both help to explain the increasing penalty, especially for women. Mismatch has become more closely associated with lower-return occupations for men but not women.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Education; occupation; earnings; field of study; mismatch

JEL Classification:
      I23 Higher Education; Research Institutions
      I26 Returns to Education
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
      J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials

Manuscript Number: ECIN-May-2022-0201

Geographic Coverage: USA

Universe: College-educated workers in the US

Data Type(s): census/enumeration data

Methodology

Data Source: National Survey of College Graduates: 1993, 2003, 2010, and 2019
US Decennial Census: 1990 and 2000 5% samples
American Community Survey, 1-year samples: 2003, 2010, 2019

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V3 [2023-10-28]

V2 [2023-10-20]

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