Immigrants’ over-education and wage penalty : evidence from Uruguay
Resumen:
This paper examines to what extent recently arrived immigrants in Uruguay experience occupation−over-education in the host labor market, and whether those over-educated workers are penalized in the destination country. Results of this study show that the more immigrants are educated, the more chances they have for being over-educated. Also, immigrants embedded in larger immigrants' social networks are less prone to be over-educated. Findings also stress that for women, over-education is reduced the longer the length of residence in Uruguay and the more years of continuous employment experience they have. Finally, it is found that over-educated immigrants are penalized in the labor market; while only for women, the more they live and continuously work in Uruguay, the larger their labor earnings.
Este estudio examina en qué medida los inmigrantes en Uruguay experimentan sobrecalificación en el empleo en el mercado de trabajo local; y si aquellos trabajadores sobrecalificados son penalizados en el salario en comparación con aquellos trabajadores cuya educación es la requerida por el empleo que desempeña. Los resultados encontrados muestran que los trabajadores con mayor nivel de calificación tienen mayor probabilidad de encontrarse sobre-calificados en el empleo. También, se encuentra que cuanto mayor es la red social con la que cuenta el inmigrante, menor será su probabilidad de encontrarse sobre-calificado en el empleo. En el caso de las mujeres inmigrantes, la probabilidad de sobre-empleo se reduce a medida que el tiempo de residencia en Uruguay se incrementa, y el tiempo de experiencia continua en el mercado de trabajo aumenta. Finalmente, se observa una penalización en el salario para trabajadores inmigrantes sobrecalificados, tanto para mujeres como para hombres.
2018 | |
Immigration Over-education Wage penalty Inmigración Sobre-calificación en el empleo Penalización salarial TRABAJADORES MIGRANTES MERCADO DE TRABAJO CALIFICACION PARA EL EMPLEO SALARIOS |
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Universidad de la República | |
COLIBRI | |
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/20425 | |
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Sumario: | This paper examines to what extent recently arrived immigrants in Uruguay experience occupation−over-education in the host labor market, and whether those over-educated workers are penalized in the destination country. Results of this study show that the more immigrants are educated, the more chances they have for being over-educated. Also, immigrants embedded in larger immigrants' social networks are less prone to be over-educated. Findings also stress that for women, over-education is reduced the longer the length of residence in Uruguay and the more years of continuous employment experience they have. Finally, it is found that over-educated immigrants are penalized in the labor market; while only for women, the more they live and continuously work in Uruguay, the larger their labor earnings. |
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