Immigrants' Educational Mismatch and the Penalty of Over-Education
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- Eleni Kalfa & Matloob Piracha, 2017. "Immigrants’ educational mismatch and the penalty of over-education," Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(5), pages 462-481, September.
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education-occupation mismatch; sample selection; immigration;JEL classification:
- C34 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Truncated and Censored Models; Switching Regression Models
- 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
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2013-11-22 (Education)
- NEP-LAB-2013-11-22 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2013-11-22 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, & Wages)
- NEP-MIG-2013-11-22 (Economics of Human Migration)
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