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Overeducation and overskilling in the early careers of PhD graduates: Does international migration reduce labour market mismatch?

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  • Sucharita Ghosh
  • Emanuele Grassi

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This paper examines the effect of international mobility on the education‐job mismatch and skill‐mismatch of PhD graduates after controlling for self‐selection into cross‐border mobility. 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. En este artículo se examina el efecto de la movilidad internacional en el desajuste entre la educación y el empleo y el desajuste de las habilidades laborales de los graduados de doctorado, una vez controlada la autoselección para la movilidad transfronteriza. Mediante la utilización de datos a nivel individual de dos tandas de encuestas a graduados de doctorado en Italia realizadas por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Italia, se constató que la migración al extranjero reduce considerablemente los riesgos de sobreeducación y sobrecualificación. Estos resultados permanecieron siendo robustos en relación con diferentes metodologías empíricas y submuestras. 本稿では、越境移動への自己選択を調整した後の、Ph.D.取得者における学歴と職業のミスマッチおよびスキルミスマッチに対する国際移動の影響を検討する。イタリアの国立統計研究所 (Italian National Institute of Statistics)が実施したイタリアのPh.D.取得者を対象とした2回の調査の個人レベルのデータから、外国への移住が教育過剰およびスキル過剰のリスクを有意に減少させるという知見が得られた。この結果は、他の実証的検証およびサブサンプルに対しても頑健性が保たれた。

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  • Sucharita Ghosh & Emanuele Grassi, 2020. "Overeducation and overskilling in the early careers of PhD graduates: Does international migration reduce labour market mismatch?," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 99(4), pages 915-944, August.
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    DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12509
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