ERIC Number: ED629518
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Apr-22
Pages: 11
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Do Immigrants Experience Labor Market Mismatch? New Evidence from the U.S. Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies
Pivovarova, Margarita; Powers, Jeanne M.
AERA Online Paper Repository, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Diego, CA and Virtual, Apr 21-26, 2022)
In this study, we investigated the factors associated with education-job mismatches among US workers by immigrant generation. We used the data from the U.S. sample of the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) and documented the distribution of education-job mismatches across selected independent variables. We estimated the relationship between the individual characteristics of workers and education-job mismatch using multinomial logistic regressions and found that on average, immigrant workers were more likely to be overmatched for the jobs they held in the U.S. labor market, with first-generation workers being overmatched more frequently than second-generation workers. Our results imply that some adjustments towards a merit-based system of immigration might be beneficial for integrating newcomer immigrants into the labor market.
Descriptors: Adults, Immigrants, Labor Market, Education Work Relationship, Employment Level, Salaries, Human Capital, Barriers, Public Policy, Employment Opportunities, Skilled Workers, Job Skills, Acculturation, Credentials, Educational Attainment, Work Experience
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC)
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