Overeducation and Overskilling in the Earlier Careers of Ph.D. Graduates: Does International Migration Reduce Labor Market Mismatch?

35 Pages Posted: 24 Sep 2019

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Sucharita Ghosh

The University of Akron

Emanuele Grassi

University of Salento - Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Economia

Date Written: September 26, 2018

Abstract

This paper examines the effect of international mobility on the education-job mismatch and skill-mismatch of Ph.D. graduates. Using individual-level data from two waves of surveys of PhD recipients in Italy conducted by the Italian National Institute of Statistics, we find that migration to foreign countries reduces significantly the risk of overeducation and overskilling. These results remain robust to different empirical methodologies and subsamples.

Keywords: overeducation, overskilling, skilled migration, international migration, PhD degree

JEL Classification: F22, I21, J24, J61

Suggested Citation

Ghosh, Sucharita and Grassi, Emanuele, Overeducation and Overskilling in the Earlier Careers of Ph.D. Graduates: Does International Migration Reduce Labor Market Mismatch? (September 26, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3454151 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3454151

Sucharita Ghosh (Contact Author)

The University of Akron ( email )

Department of Economics
Akron, OH 44325-1908
United States

Emanuele Grassi

University of Salento - Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Economia ( email )

via per Monteroni
Lecce, 73100
Italy

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