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Overeducation and overskilling in the early careers of PhD graduates: Does international migration reduce labour market mismatch?
Author(s) -
Ghosh Sucharita,
Grassi Emanuele
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/pirs.12509
Subject(s) - demographic economics , occupational mobility , economics , labour economics , job market , selection (genetic algorithm) , work (physics) , computer science , engineering , mechanical engineering , artificial intelligence
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.