PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Andrew Agopsowicz
AU  - Chris Robinson
AU  - Ralph Stinebrickner
AU  - Todd Stinebrickner
TI  - Careers and Mismatch for College Graduates: College and Non-college Jobs
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.55.4.0517-8782R1
DP  - 2020 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2020/01/22/jhr.55.4.0517-8782R1.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2020/01/22/jhr.55.4.0517-8782R1.full
AB  - A large literature studies the wage consequences of “over-education” in the sense of a worker, by some measure, having a higher level of education than is required for the job. We use unique new data to reexamine the common interpretation that initial over-education represents a harmful type of mismatch that arises due to information induced frictions. We contrast this with the alternative that college graduates are heterogeneous with respect to their human capital and that the labor market is appropriately allocating them to jobs, even when many are observed starting in jobs that do not require a college degree.