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Educational Mismatch: Are High-Skilled Immigrants Really Working at High-Skilled Jobs and the Price They Pay If They Aren't?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Chiswick, Barry R. Miller, Paul W. |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| 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 native-born workers are also presented for comparison purposes. The results show that over-education 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. |
| Starting Page | 111 |
| Ending Page | 154 |
| Page Count | 44 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.su.se/polopoly_fs/1.69806.1326362889!/menu/standard/file/SULCIS_WP2010_7.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/35828/1/608071692.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://anon-ftp.iza.org/dp4280.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
