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Rubb, Stephen – Education Economics, 2020
This paper analyzes the labor market impact of the Great Recession on overeducated and undereducated workers. In March 2008, the U.S. economy was near full employment with an unemployment rate of 4.8 percent. The next year, the unemployment rate peaked at 10.0 percent. The pace of the economic decline allows us to observe the workers'…
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Overachievement, Underachievement, Education Work Relationship
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Rubb, Stephen – Education Economics, 2014
Using data from the 2004 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, the role of occupational heterogeneity in the standard overeducation-required-undereducation (ORU) earnings function introduced by Duncan and Hoffman [1981. "The incidence and wage effects of overeducation." "Economics of Education Review" 1, no. 1: 75-86] is…
Descriptors: Nurses, National Surveys, Occupational Surveys, Income