Essays on overqualification, work organisation, and technology: empirical evidence for Germany

The dissertation consists of the following three empirical essays concerned with the allocation and the utilisation of human capital in the German labour market which is characterised by an increasing skill supply and the recent diffusion of new mobile ICT: (1) 'Overqualification of graduates: assessing the role of family background' by Daniel Erdsiek [also published as ZEW discussion paper no. 14-130, available in VOCEDplus at TD/TNC 119.873]; (2) 'Dynamics of overqualification: evidence from the early career of graduates' by Daniel Erdsiek [also published as ZEW discussion paper no. 17-020, available in VOCEDplus at TD/TNC 134.201]; and (3) 'Mobile information and communication technologies, flexible work organization and labor productivity: firm-level evidence' by Steffen Viete and Daniel Erdsiek [also published as ZEW discussion paper no. 15-087].

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