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