Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/290647 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 1427
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
A large body of literature shows that first-generation immigrants born in developing countries experience a higher likelihood of being overeducated than natives (i.e. immigrant overeducation). However, evidence is remarkably scarce when it comes to the overeducation of second-generation immigrants. Using a matched employer-employee database for Belgium over the period 1999-2016 and generalized ordered logit regressions, we contribute to the literature with one of the first studies on the intergenerational nexus between overeducation and origin among tertiary-educated workers. We show that immigrant overeducation disappears across two generations when workers work full-time. However, immigrant overeducation is a persistent intergenerational phenomenon when workers work part-time. Our gender-interacted estimates endorse these findings for female and male immigrants.
Subjects: 
immigrants
intergenerational studies
labour market integration
overeducation
generalized ordered logit
moderating factors
JEL: 
I21
I22
J15
J24
J61
J62
J71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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