Abstract The career mobility model suggests that overeducated workers are more prone to take up on-the-job training, to climb up the career ladder, or to leave to professions more suitable to their educational level. Our empirical analysis, using the German SOEP, confirms this theory for Germany. Comparing adequately qualified and overqualified workers in jobs that require the same level of formal qualification indicates that overeducated workers have a higher probability to take up on-the-job training and have a higher probability to move to jobs that better match their educational level. Furthermore, we find that overeducated workers experience higher wage growth than their adequately educated colleagues.

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不匹配！德国的过度教育和职业流动

摘要职业流动模型表明，受过良好教育的工人更容易接受在职培训，攀升职业阶梯或选择更适合其教育水平的职业。我们使用德国SOEP进行的经验分析证实了德国的这一理论。对需要相同正式资格的工作中的合格和过分合格的工人进行比较，表明受过良好教育的工人接受在职培训的可能性较高，而转向与自己的教育水平相匹配的工作的可能性较高。此外，我们发现，受过良好教育的工人的工资增长要高于受过良好教育的同事。