International transferability of immigrants’ human capital
This paper uses 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. Overeducation is found to be more common among recent labor market entr...
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| author | Chiswick, B. Miller, Paul |
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| description | This paper uses 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. Overeducation is found to be more common among recent labor market entrants, while undereducation is more likely among older workers. Among immigrants, greater pre-immigration labor market experience is associated with poorer job matches, presumably due to the less-than-perfect international transferability of foreign experience. A longer duration in the US, however, is associated with a lower probability of being overeducated and a greater probability of being undereducated. This is consistent with immigrants being favorably selected for occupational advancement but this effect becomes realized only after overcoming the disadvantages of the less-than-perfect international transferability of their pre-immigration skills. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-472002017-09-13T14:13:45Z International transferability of immigrants’ human capital Chiswick, B. Miller, Paul Education Skill transferability Immigrants Occupational attainment This paper uses 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. Overeducation is found to be more common among recent labor market entrants, while undereducation is more likely among older workers. Among immigrants, greater pre-immigration labor market experience is associated with poorer job matches, presumably due to the less-than-perfect international transferability of foreign experience. A longer duration in the US, however, is associated with a lower probability of being overeducated and a greater probability of being undereducated. This is consistent with immigrants being favorably selected for occupational advancement but this effect becomes realized only after overcoming the disadvantages of the less-than-perfect international transferability of their pre-immigration skills. 2009 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47200 10.1016/j.econedurev.2008.07.002 Pergamon restricted |
| spellingShingle | Education Skill transferability Immigrants Occupational attainment Chiswick, B. Miller, Paul International transferability of immigrants’ human capital |
| title | International transferability of immigrants’ human capital |
| title_full | International transferability of immigrants’ human capital |
| title_fullStr | International transferability of immigrants’ human capital |
| title_full_unstemmed | International transferability of immigrants’ human capital |
| title_short | International transferability of immigrants’ human capital |
| title_sort | international transferability of immigrants’ human capital |
| topic | Education Skill transferability Immigrants Occupational attainment |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47200 |