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The international transferability of immigrants’ human capital
Barry R. Chiswick,Paul W. Miller +1 more
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The authors used the approach in the under/over education literature to analyze the extent of matching of educational level to occupational attainment among adult native born and foreign born men in the US, using the 2000 Census.About:
This article is published in Economics of Education Review.The article was published on 2009-04-01. It has received 416 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Foreign born & Educational attainment.read more
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Crossing national boundaries: A typology of qualified immigrants' career orientations
TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative study examines objective-subjective career interdependencies within asample of 45 qualified immigrants (QIs) in Canada, Spain and France, identifying six major themes in QIs'subjective interpretations of objective barriers: maintaining motivation, managing identity, developing new credentials, developing local know-how, building a new social network and evaluating career success.
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The Employment Experience of Refugees in the Netherlands
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used survey data of refugees from Somalia, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the former Yugoslavia in the Netherlands, to analyze refugees' odds of employment and their occupational status.
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Occupation–education mismatch of immigrant workers in Europe: Context and policies
Mariya Aleksynska,Ahmed Tritah +1 more
TL;DR: This article analyzed occupational matching of immigrants from over seventy countries of origin to 22 European countries and found that immigrants are more likely to be both under- and overeducated than the native born for the jobs that they perform.
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Isolating the Network Effect of Immigrants on Trade
Mariya Aleksynska,Giovanni Peri +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a more carefully defined measure of migration business networks and quantifies its impact on bilateral trade has been proposed, using cross-sectional data and controlling for the overall bilateral stock of migrants, the share of migrants employed in managerial/business-related occupations has a strong additional effect on trade.
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Skill Mismatch and Public Policy in OECD Countries
Müge Adalet McGowan,Dan Andrews +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explored the relationship between skill mismatch and public policies using micro data for 22 OECD countries from the recent OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) and found that differences in skill mismatch across countries are related to differences in public policies.
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The Effect of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born Men
TL;DR: This paper analyzed the earnings of foreign-born adult white men, as reported in the 1970 Census of Population, through comparisons with the native born and among the foreign born by country of origin, years in the United States, and citizenship.
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Over-education and earnings: Where are we, where should we go?
TL;DR: In this paper, regularities in the incidence of over-and undereducation are outlined, as well as consequences for individual earnings, using empirical studies from five countries spanning an interval of two decades, and the results are confronted with three theoretical models (search, human capital and assignment), but none of these is convincingly related to the specification of the earnings function.
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"Overeducation" in the Labor Market
TL;DR: This article examined the reasons for the observed discrepancy between workers' actual and required levels of schooling and the resulting differences in returns to schooling and found that "Overeducated" workers are younger and have lower amounts of on-the-job training than workers with the required level of schooling.
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Overeducation in the Labour Market
TL;DR: The authors assesses the consistency of overeducation within the context of a number of theoretical frameworks including Human Capital Theory (HCT) and Assignment Theory, and concludes that the impacts of the phenomenon represent an economic reality as opposed to a statistical artefact.
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The incidence and wage effects of overeducation
Greg J. Duncan,Saul D. Hoffman +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that surplus education does have economic value and that the individual return to an additional year of surplus education was positive and significant for all major demographic groups, but the estimated return is only about half the size of the return to required education.