Educational mismatch. Are high-skilled immigrants really working at high-skilled jobs and the price they pay if they aren't?

Autor/inn/en	Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W.
Titel	Educational mismatch. Are high-skilled immigrants really working at high-skilled jobs and the price they pay if they aren't?
Quelle	Bonn: Forschungsinst. zur Zukunft der Arbeit (2009), 54 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (3); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (4) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit. 4280
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
URN	urn:nbn:de:101:1-2009082123
Schlagwörter	Bildungsertrag; Arbeitskraft; Überqualifikation; Brain Drain; Arbeitspapier; Hoch Qualifizierter; Migrant; USA
Abstract	"This paper examines the incidence of the mismatch of the educational attainment and the occupation of employment, and the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for high-skilled adult male nativeborn workers are also presented for comparison purposes. The results show that overeducation is widespread in the high-skilled US labor market, both for immigrants and the native born. The extent of over-education declines with duration in the US as high-skilled immigrants obtain jobs commensurate with their educational level. Years of schooling that are above that which is usual for a worker's occupation are associated with very low increases in earnings. Indeed, in the first 10 to 20 years in the US years of over-education among high-skilled workers have a negative effect on earnings. This ineffective use of surplus education appears across all occupations and high-skilled education levels. Although schooling serves as a pathway to occupational attainment, earnings appear to be more closely linked to a worker's occupation than to the individual's level of schooling." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Sekundäranalyse; Querschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 2000 bis 2000. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2010/1