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Title: Immigrant over- and under-education : the role of home country labour market experience
Related: IZA journal of migration, Vol. 1, Issue 3, (2012), p.1-21
DOI: 10.1186/2193-9039-1-3
Publisher: Institute for the Study of Labor, Springer
Date: 2012
Author/Creator: Piracha, Matloob
Author/Creator: Tani, Massimiliano
Author/Creator: Vadean, Florin
Description: Literature on the immigrant labour market mismatch has not explored the signal provided by the quality of home country work experience, particularly that of education-occupation mismatch prior to migration. We show that type of work experience in the home country plays a significant role in explaining immigrant mismatch in the destination country's labour market. We use the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia and find that having been over-educated in the last job held in the home country increases the likelihood of being over-educated in Australia by about 45 percent. Whereas having been under-educated in the home country has an even stronger impact, as it increases the probability to be similarly mismatched in Australia by 62 percent.
Description: 21 page(s)
Subject Keyword: Immigration
Subject Keyword: Education-occupation mismatch
Subject Keyword: Sample selection
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Economics

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