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Cim, Merve; Kind, Michael; Kleibrink, Jan – Education Economics, 2020
Occupational mismatch is a widespread phenomenon among immigrants in many European countries. Mismatch is predominantly measured in terms of formal education ignoring the imperfect comparability of international educational degrees. Exploiting internationally comparable cognitive skill measures from the PIAAC data, we examine whether overeducation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Education Work Relationship, Underemployment
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Tinta, Abdoulganiour Almame; Ouedraogo, Salifou; Thiombiano, Noel – Education Economics, 2023
This paper addresses international student migration, return migration and labor market entry by examining the effects of graduate educational migration on employment, type of employment, wage and wait time to obtain employment. Using primary data collected in 2021 on 1774 burkinabè graduates, including non-migrants and migrants (returnees and…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, College Graduates, Student Mobility, Labor Market
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Sellami, Sana; Verhaest, Dieter; Nonneman, Walter; Van Trier, Walter – Education Economics, 2020
Relying on data for Belgian graduates, we investigate the relationship between motives to participate in higher education (investment, educational consumption, student life consumption and social norms) and overeducation after graduation. We also examine whether these motives affect the relationship between overeducation and other outcomes like…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, Job Satisfaction, Behavior Standards