Os impactos da sobreeducação e subeducação sobre os rendimentos dos trabalhadores de Minas Gerais e do Brasil

Abstract

This paper seeks to identify if there is overeducation and undereducation in the labor market of Brazil and in the one of Minas Gerais state and to estimate the impacts that these phenomena have on workers' wages. The database used was the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD) and the method used to estimate the altered Mincer earnings function, the chosen model, was the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS). The data showed that the overeducated and undereducated make up for the majority of the work force in both, Brazil and Minas Gerais. The data showed that the overeducated and undereducated make up the majority of the workforce in Brazil and Minas Gerais. The results showed that being overeducated, in detriment of being adequate, has a positive relation in the income of Brazilian and Minas Gerais’ workers. Being undereducated, compared to being appropriate, has negative relation with the salary of the workers of Minas Gerais and Brazil. With this study, it was possible to verify that there is evidence of overeducation and undereducation in Brazil and Minas Gerais in 2015 and that being in this condition affects worker’s earnings.