2023-09-28 14:46:10 +00:00
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abstract: 'Background: One way of evaluating immigrants'' labor market outcomes is
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to assess the extent to which immigrants are able to enter into jobs
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that are commensurate with their education and experience. An imperfect
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alignment between workers'' educational qualifications and these required
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for their current job, or education-job mismatch, has implications for
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both the broader economy and individual workers. In this study, we
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investigate the factors associated with education-job mismatches among
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US workers by immigrant generation.
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Methods: We analyzed the data from the US sample of the Program for the
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International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) 2012/2014. Our
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analytic sample included 4022 employed (full and part-time) individuals
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between the ages of 20-65 years. We documented the distribution of
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education-job mismatches across selected independent variables and
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estimated the relationship between the individual characteristics of
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workers such as race, gender, presence of children, location, time in
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the country and knowledge of English for first-generation immigrant
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workers, and education-job mismatch using multinomial logistic
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regressions for the full sample and for the sample of first- and
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second-generation workers.
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Results: We found that on average, immigrant workers in the US labor
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market were more likely to hold jobs which required less education that
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they had (being overmatched for the job), with first-generation workers
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being overmatched more frequently than second-generation workers. The
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probability of being overmatched for immigrant workers declines with the
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length of stay, and workers who are proficient in English are less
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likely to be overmatched. Our results also suggest that there may be
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labor market disadvantages to immigrant status that persist beyond the
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first-generation.
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Conclusions: Previous research demonstrated that over-education
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depresses wages and lowers workers'' standards of living and their
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abilities to accumulate wealth. Our findings confirm that this dynamic
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may be particularly acute for first- and second-generation workers who
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are finding it difficult to become fully integrated into US labor
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markets, even though the factors behind the mismatch differs between the
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two immigrant generations.'
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affiliation: 'Pivovarova, M (Corresponding Author), Arizona State Univ, Mary Lou Fulton
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Teachers Coll, Tempe, AZ 85281 USA.
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Pivovarova, Margarita; Powers, Jeanne M., Arizona State Univ, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers
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Coll, Tempe, AZ 85281 USA.'
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article-number: '9'
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author: Pivovarova, Margarita and Powers, Jeanne M.
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author-email: margarita.pivovarova@asu.edu
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author_list:
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- family: Pivovarova
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given: Margarita
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- family: Powers
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given: Jeanne M.
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da: '2023-09-28'
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doi: 10.1186/s40536-022-00127-7
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eissn: 2196-0739
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files: []
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journal: LARGE-SCALE ASSESSMENTS IN EDUCATION
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keywords: 'PIAAC; Education-job mismatch; Immigrants; Labor markets; Immigrant
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integration; Immigration policy'
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keywords-plus: 'CROSS-COUNTRY DIFFERENCES; RACIAL-DISCRIMINATION; EDUCATIONAL
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MISMATCHES; OVEREDUCATION; EARNINGS; OVERQUALIFICATION; WAGES;
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PRODUCTIVITY; CREDENTIALS; EMPLOYMENT'
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language: English
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month: AUG 3
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number: '1'
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number-of-cited-references: '65'
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orcid-numbers: Pivovarova, Margarita/0000-0002-2965-7423
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papis_id: c3b1d71e53b861944efd28c53dd3c3b6
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ref: Pivovarova2022doimmigrants
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times-cited: '1'
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title: Do immigrants experience labor market mismatch? New evidence from the US PIAAC
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2023-10-01 08:15:07 +00:00
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type: article
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2023-09-28 14:46:10 +00:00
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unique-id: WOS:000835684100001
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usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
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usage-count-since-2013: '6'
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volume: '10'
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web-of-science-categories: Education \& Educational Research
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year: '2022'
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