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Over‐education and spatial flexibility: New evidence from Italian survey data *
Author(s) -
Devillanova Carlo
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00434.x
Subject(s) - endogeneity , flexibility (engineering) , quality (philosophy) , demographic economics , order (exchange) , spatial econometrics , labour economics , economics , econometrics , philosophy , management , epistemology , finance
This paper addresses the effect of workers' spatial flexibility (commuting and migration) on their probability of being over‐educated. The empirical analysis deals with two possible sources of misspecification: the endogeneity of migration and the omission of relevant job characteristics. It also controls for area and personal characteristics. Results show that commuting is positively correlated with the quality of the education‐job match. However, analysis does not support the conventional wisdom that migration unambiguously reduces over‐education. It seems fair to conclude that the link between migration and over‐education remains unclear and that further research is needed in order to better ground policy prescriptions.