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Mavromaras, Kostas; Mahuteau, Stephane; Sloane, Peter; Wei, Zhang – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2012
Overskilling is the phenomenon whereby a worker's skills are underutilised in his or her job. Overskilled workers are employed, but they are underutilised and mismatched, in that their skills and abilities are not a good match with the requirements of the job. Overskilling can lead to decreased wages and job satisfaction, which suggests that the…
Descriptors: Wages, Job Satisfaction, Persistence, Salary Wage Differentials
O'Leary, Christopher J.; Wandner, Stephen A. – 2000
Unemployment compensation in the United States is provided through a federal-state system of unemployment insurance (UI). UI provides temporary partial wage replacement to active job seekers who are involuntarily out of work. For older workers, UI is an important source of income security and a potential influence on work incentives. For example,…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Futures (of Society), Labor Force Development