Brain waste? Educated immigrants in the US labor market

Mattoo, Aaditya; Neagu, Ileana Cristina; Özden, Çağlar

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2007.05.001

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“…Overall, around 17 percent of immigrants' wage growth in the first 10 years after arrival in Israel can be attributed to occupational transitions. Mattoo et al (2008) provide similar evidence of "underplacement" of immigrants in the U.S. labour market, where in particular skilled immigrants from countries with lower expenditures on tertiary education and non-English languages of instruction, such as Latin American or Eastern European countries, tend to end up in unskilled jobs.…”

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confidence: 75%

Migration and Education

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2011

Handbook of the Economics of Education

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Sjaastad (1962) viewed migration in the same way as education: as an investment in the human agent. Migration and education are decisions that are indeed intertwined in many dimensions. Education and skill acquisition play an important role at many stages of an individual's migration. Differential returns to skills in origin-and destination country are a main driver of migration. The economic success of the immigrant in the destination country is to a large extent determined by her educational background, how transferable these skills are to the host country labour market, and how much she invests into further skills after arrival. The desire to acquire skills in the host country that have a high return in the country of origin may also be an important reason for a migration. From an intertemporal point of view, the possibility of a later migration may also affect educational decisions in the home country long before a migration is realised. In addition, the decisions of migrants regarding their own educational investment, and their expectations about future migration plans may also affect the educational attainment of their children. But migration and education are not only related for those who migrate or their descendants. Migrations of some individuals may have consequences for educational decisions of those who do not migrate, both in the homeand in the host country. By easing credit constraints through remittances, migration of some may help others to go to school. By changing the skill base of the receiving country, migration may change incentives to invest in certain types of human capital. Migrants and their children may create externalities that influence educational outcomes of non-migrants in the destination country. This chapter will discuss some of the key areas that connect migration and education.

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Section: Downgrading and Ethnic Networkmentioning

confidence: 75%

Migration and Education

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Glitz

2011

Handbook of the Economics of Education

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“…Similar effects are observed in most developing nations, such as Egypt (Marchetta, 2012) and Albania (Piracha and Vadean, 2010). However, human capital gains may be less useful if the skills acquired by the migrants cannot be transferred (Mattoo, Neagu, and Özden, 2008). Besides, in Europe, African migrants are overrepresented in unskilled jobs (De Haas, 2006;Schiff and Özden, 2006;Schoumaker et al 2013).…”

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confidence: 83%

Empirical Investigation of Impediments to Returnees’ Entrepreneurship in Ghana: An Application of Structural Equation Modelling

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2018

Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences

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“…There is also a vast international literature on the underutilisation of migrant skills by the host country, particularly when English is not the migrant worker's first language (for example, Misztal 1999, Mattoo, Neagu and Ozden 2008, Huber, Landesmann, Robinson and Stehrer 2010. Finally, Piper (2009) argues that much literature on temporary migration concentrates on economic development opportunities for the host country and that the significant social implications also require consideration.…”

Section: Temporary Skilled Migrant Needsmentioning

confidence: 99%