Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58682 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6414
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper reviews the literature on educational mismatch of immigrants in the labour market of destination countries. It draws on the theoretical arguments postulated in the labour economics literature and discusses their extension in the analysis of the causes and effects of immigrants' educational mismatch in the destination country. Relevant empirical approaches have been presented which show that immigrants are in general more over-educated than natives and that the reasons for those range from imperfect transferability of human capital to discrimination to perhaps lack of innate ability. It then assesses the state of current literature and proposes an agenda for further research.
Subjects: 
immigration
education-occupation mismatch
JEL: 
J24
J61
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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