Green, Francis; McIntosh, Steven; Vignoles, Anna F. - 2003
This paper assesses how far the products of education are utilized in the British labour market, and how utilization … has recently changed. We distinguish the concepts of 'under-education', 'over-education' and 'qualification inflation …'. Using data from four surveys we find that over-education, while substantial, has been stable since the mid-1980s. Although …