ABSTRACT

This article investigates the extent to which personality traits and cognitive skills can be seen as potential determinants of overeducation, and can explain the overeducation wage penalty. Using a representative survey of the Polish working-age population with well-established measures of cognitive skills and personality traits, I find that accounting for personality and cognitive skills does not change the size and the statistical significance of overeducation wage penalty estimates. My results also demonstrate that personality is one of the contributors to the risk of being overeducated among workers aged 18–29, but not among workers aged 30–68. Among younger workers, agreeable individuals are more likely to be overeducated, while conscientious individuals are less likely to be overeducated. Moreover, lower numeracy skills are associated with higher probability of being overeducated.

摘要

本文调查了人格特质和认知技能在多大程度上可以被视为过度教育的潜在决定因素，并可以解释过度教育的工资惩罚。使用对波兰工作年龄人口进行的具有完善的认知技能和人格特征测量的代表性调查，我发现对人格和认知技能的考虑不会改变过度教育工资惩罚估计的规模和统计显着性。我的研究结果还表明，性格是导致 18-29 岁工人受教育过度风险的因素之一，但在 30-68 岁工人中则不然。在年轻员工中，随和的人更有可能受过教育，而尽责的人不太可能受过教育。而且，