TY - JOUR 
A1 - Badillo Amador, María Lourdes
AU - Vila Lladosa, Luis Eduardo
T1 - Can job/worker mismatches help to explain wages and job satisfaction differences among comparable workers?
Y1 - 2008
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10317/1157
AB - The relevance of skill job-worker mismatches is analized along with that of education
mismatch on Spanish data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) survey
for the year 2001. Statistical analysis for the prevalence of both types of mismatches, as well
as econometric analysis of their wage and job satisfaction consequences has been carried out.
Three main findings emerge. First, the degree of statistical association between education and
skill mismatches is rather low in the Spanish labour market, suggesting that education mismatch
is a rather poor proxy for skill mismatch. Second, both skill and education mismatches
appear to have separate, negative effects on wages although skill mismatches show stronger
influences. Third, skill mismatches severely reduce workers job satisfaction while the effects
of education mismatch weakened when skill mismatches are accounted for. Consequently,
skill mismatch is found to be a relevant determinant of wage, as well as a stronger predictor of
workers’ utility, than education mismatch.
KW - Economía Aplicada
KW - Desfase de la educación
KW - Inadecuación de las cualificaciones
KW - Salario
KW - Satisfacción en el trabajo
KW - Educational mismatch
KW - Skill mismatch
KW - Wage
KW - Job satisfaction
LA - eng
PB - Asociación de Economía de la Educación (A.E.D.E.)
ER -