Issue Information – TOC

• Published date: 01 March 2017
• Date: 01 March 2017
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12020

International

Labour

Review

2017 1 > Volume 156/1 March

Contents

1 Differences in horizontal and vertical mismatches across countries

and elds of study

Dieter VERHAEST, Sana SELLAMI and Rolf van der VELDEN

Based on early career data on graduates in Europe and Japan, the authors in-

vestigate whether full job mismatch (i.e. eld-of-study mismatch and over-edu-

cation), mere horizontal mismatch and mere vertical mismatch can be explained

by differences in institutions and labour market imbalances. Mere horizontal

mismatch is lower in countries with stronger employment protection, higher

unemployment benets and selective educational programmes. Cross-country dif-

ferences in mere vertical mismatch are largely explained by labour market im-

balances. These variables also affect full mismatch, which is positively related to

collective bargaining coverage as well. Field-of-study differences in mismatches

are similarly determined by educational programme characteristics and labour

market imbalances.

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25 Which skills protect graduates against a slack labour market?

Martin HUMBURG, Andries de GRIP and Rolf van der VELDEN

This article explores the relationship between graduates’ skills and their risk of

over-education and unemployment in 17 European countries. Distinguishing be-

tween eld-specic and academic skills, the authors nd that, as predicted by the

crowding-out hypothesis, eld-specic skills offer more protection against the

risk of over-education when the excess labour supply in the occupational domain

of the graduate’s eld of study increases. Conversely, academic skills have that

effect when excess supply in the overall labour market is higher. Field-specic

SPECIAL ISSUE

SKILLS, JOBS AND MISMATCHES