abstract: 'U.S. immigration policy debates increasingly center on attracting

  highly-skilled immigrants. African immigrants, in particular, exhibit

  high levels of over-education. But questions remain about whether

  African immigrants'' skills are appropriately utilized in the U.S. labour

  market. This paper uses U.S. Census and American Community Survey data

  to determine whether Africans'' over-education leads to a corresponding

  wage disadvantage. I also investigate whether search and match,

  imperfect transferability, or queuing theory describes African

  immigrants'' wage outcomes. I find that, while African and Asian

  immigrants have similarly high rates of college education and

  over-education, Africans experience significantly larger wage

  disadvantages due to over-education. African immigrants'' low wages are

  closer to that of U.S. and Caribbean-born blacks indicating that queuing

  theory describes their wage disadvantage. These findings suggest the

  need for policy addressing racial disparities in the labour market

  rather than new immigration policy.'
affiliation: 'Tesfai, R (Corresponding Author), Temple Univ, Philadelphia, PA 19122
  USA.

  Tesfai, Rebbeca, Temple Univ, Philadelphia, PA 19122 USA.'
author: Tesfai, Rebbeca
author_list:
- family: Tesfai
  given: Rebbeca
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1111/imig.12352
eissn: 1468-2435
files: []
issn: 0020-7985
journal: INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
keywords-plus: 'OVER-EDUCATION; SAMPLE SELECTION; FOREIGN; ASSIMILATION; INEQUALITY;

  EMPLOYMENT; CANADA; COLOR; BLACK'
language: English
month: AUG
number: '4'
number-of-cited-references: '68'
orcid-numbers: Tesfai, Rebbeca/0000-0001-5170-4452
pages: 203-220
papis_id: 2cef6aae2ef3675a55d224ce4a3aba85
ref: Tesfai2017racializedlabour
times-cited: '11'
title: Racialized Labour Market Incorporation? African Immigrants and the Role of
  Education-Occupation Mismatch in Earnings
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000405812400016
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '9'
volume: '55'
web-of-science-categories: Demography
year: '2017'