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OECD Publishing, 2018
Adult migrants in all OECD countries are a diverse group, with different profiles and levels of education. Even if they hold tertiary degrees, they are more likely to have poorer labour market outcomes, including lower earnings. Participation in the labour market is more difficult for foreign-born adults who arrived at a later age and acquired…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Employment, Immigrants, Income
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Habibov, Nazim; Auchynnikova, Alena; Luo, Rong – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of a variety of levels of education, namely, high school, vocational and university education, on the probability of being employed in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Design/methodology/approach: The data are from two waves of the Life-in-Transition Survey that covers 29…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Human Capital, Outcomes of Education, Employment Patterns
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Frick, Maria; Riionheimo, Helka – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
Through a conversation analytic investigation of Finnish-Estonian bilingual (direct) reported speech (i.e., voicing) by Finns who live in Estonia, this study shows how code-switching is used as a double contextualization device. The code-switched voicings are shaped by the on-going interactional situation, serving its needs by opening up a context…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Finno Ugric Languages, Immigrants