Overeducation and Overskilling in the Earlier Careers of Ph.D. Graduates: Does International Migration Reduce Labor Market Mismatch?
35 Pages Posted: 24 Sep 2019
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: 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
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