Education and competence mismatches: job satisfaction consecuences for workers

  1. María Lourdes Badillo Amador 1
  2. Ángel López Nicolás 1
  3. Luis E. Vila
  1. 1 Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
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    Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena

    Cartagena, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02k5kx966

Revista:
Revista Electrónica de Comunicaciones y Trabajos de ASEPUMA

ISSN: 1575-605X

Año de publicación: 2008

Volumen: Actas_16(1)

Tipo: Artículo

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Otras publicaciones en: Revista Electrónica de Comunicaciones y Trabajos de ASEPUMA

Resumen

The accuracy of the match in the job-worker pairing is analyzed both in terms of education and in terms of qualification using Spanish data from the 2001 wave of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). Regarding the incidence of mismatch situations, the results suggest that the education match appears to be a rather poor indicator for the qualification match. In addition, ordered discrete choice models reveal that they have different consequences in terms of job satisfaction as wel