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Table 5 Returns to actual, required, over and undereducation, pooled OLS regressions, women

From: Overeducation among immigrants in Sweden: incidence, wage effects and state dependence

 

Actual schooling, women

Under-, required and overeducation, women

 

Natives

Western immigrants

Non-Western Immigrants

Natives

Western immigrants

Non-Western Immigrants

Schooling

0.055**

0.054**

0.038**

   
 

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.000)

   

UE_mode

   

−0.031**

−0.032**

−0.027**

    

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.000)

RE_mode

   

0.064**

0.070**

0.066**

    

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.000)

OE_mode

   

0.047**

0.040**

0.013**

    

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.000)

R-squared

0.436

0.413

0.405

0.462

0.458

0.506

Number of observations

6,929,785

347,853

543,752

6,929,785

347,853

543,752

  1. Note: The models also include controls for age, age squared, marital status, having young children, years since migration (for immigrants), sector (five categories), municipality, birth region for immigrants (six categories) and year dummies. Standard errors in parentheses. ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1.