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Immigrant Overeducation across Generations: The Role of Gender and Part-Time Work

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  • Pineda-Hernández, Kevin

    (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

  • Rycx, François

    (Free University of Brussels)

  • Volral, Mélanie

    (University of Mons)

Abstract

A large body of literature shows that first-generation immigrants born in developing countries experience a higher likelihood of being overeducated than natives (i.e. immigrant overeducation). However, evidence is remarkably scarce when it comes to the overeducation of second-generation immigrants. Using a matched employer-employee database for Belgium over the period 1999-2016 and generalized ordered logit regressions, we contribute to the literature with one of the first studies on the intergenerational nexus between overeducation and origin among tertiary-educated workers. We show that immigrant overeducation disappears across two generations when workers work full-time. However, immigrant overeducation is a persistent intergenerational phenomenon when workers work part-time. Our gender-interacted estimates endorse these findings for female and male immigrants.

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  • Pineda-Hernández, Kevin & Rycx, François & Volral, Mélanie, 2024. "Immigrant Overeducation across Generations: The Role of Gender and Part-Time Work," IZA Discussion Papers 17027, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    • Handle: RePEc:iza:izadps:dp17027
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    Keywords

    immigrants; intergenerational studies; labour market integration; overeducation; generalized ordered logit; moderating factors;
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    JEL classification:

    • I22 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Educational Finance; Financial Aid
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
    • J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing

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