TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Piracha, Matloob
AU  - Tani, Massimiliano
AU  - Vadean, Florin
        TI  - Immigrant Over- and Under-education: The Role of Home Country Labour Market Experience
        PY  - 2010/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5302
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5302
        AB  - The cause of immigrant education mismatch in the host country labour market might not necessarily be discrimination or imperfect transferability of human capital, as argued in previous studies. Immigrants who have gained professional experience in the home country in jobs below their education level might be assessed by host country employers as having lower abilities and skills than those expected from their educational qualifications. Using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia we show that a significant part of the variation in the immigrants' probability to be over-/under-educated in the Australian labour market can be explained by having been over-/under-educated in the last job in the home country.
        KW  - sample selection
KW  - education-occupation mismatch
KW  - immigrants
        ER  -