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The Relationship Between Overeducation and Job Satisfaction Among Young Spanish Workers: The Role of Salary, Contract of Employment, and Work Experie…

2010

The increase of education in younger generations and the relative scarcity of qualified jobs available for them makes overeducation of young employees a social issue. We explored the relationships between overeducation and job satisfaction (extrinsic, intrinsic, social facet), as well as the direct and moderating role of salary, contract of employment, and work experience in these relationships using hierarchical regression analyses. Data were collected from a sample of 643 young Spanish employees. As expected, there were negative relationships between overeducation and all 3 satisfaction facets. Moreover, high work experience emerged as a moderating factor that buffered the negative effect…

Labour economicsovereducationSocial PsychologyRelative scarcityMultilevel modelSample (statistics)Social issuesWork experienceFacet (psychology)SpainJob satisfactionSalaryPsychologyjob satisfaction
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Gender Imbalance across Subfields in Economics: When Does It Start?

2021

We investigate the marked gender imbalance across subfields in economics and connect it with the relative scarcity of female students enrolling in economics. First, tracking authorship in the Ameri...

Relative scarcityDemographic economicsTracking (education)PsychologyGeneral Economics Econometrics and FinanceFemale studentsJournal of Human Capital
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