Determinants of Country-Level Employee Overqualification: A Configurational Approach

We build on the configurational approach to identify configurational patterns leading to high countrylevel employee overqualification. We differentiate between subjective and objective employee overqualification and establish that each is caused by a different set (and configuration) of macro factors. In addition, we find that a country’s non-vocational education system is a necessary condition for high objective employee overqualification.