Immigrant skill utilization: Trends and policy issues

JG Reitz, J Curtis, J Elrick - Journal of international migration and …, 2014 - Springer
Since 1996, the problem of underutilization of immigrant skills in Canada has grown
significantly. University-educated immigrants are more numerous, and census analysis …

Occupational health and safety vulnerability of recent immigrants and refugees

B Yanar, A Kosny, PM Smith - International journal of environmental …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Recent immigrants and refugees have higher rates of work-related injuries and illnesses
compared to Canadian-born workers. As a result, they are often labelled as vulnerable …

Overeducation among immigrants in Sweden: incidence, wage effects and state dependence

PA Joona, ND Gupta, E Wadensjö - IZA Journal of Migration, 2014 - Springer
The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host
country has been studied extensively. Using Swedish register data from 2001–2008, we …

Education–job (mis) match and interregional migration: Italian university graduates' transition to work

S Iammarino, E Marinelli - Regional Studies, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Iammarino S. and Marinelli E. Education–job (mis) match and interregional migration: Italian
university graduates' transition to work, Regional Studies. This paper analyses the micro …

Brain gain or brain waste? Horizontal, vertical, and full job-education mismatch and wage progression among skilled immigrant men in Canada

R Banerjee, A Verma, T Zhang - International Migration …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines the incidence and wage effects of vertical, horizontal, and full job-
education mismatch for high skilled immigrant and native-born men over a six-year period …

Liability-of-foreignness effects on job success of immigrant job seekers

T Fang, AK Samnani, MM Novicevic, MN Bing - Journal of World Business, 2013 - Elsevier
We examined the liability-of-foreignness (LOF) hypothesis for immigrant and native job
seekers by analyzing a national dataset that tracks their use of job-search methods and their …

Immigration system, labor market structures, and overeducation of high-skilled immigrants in the United States and Canada

Y Lu, F Hou - International migration review, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Why do high-skilled Canadian immigrants lag behind their US counterparts in labor-market
outcomes, despite Canada's merit-based immigration selection system and more integrative …

Education, skills, and wage gaps in Canada and the United States

WC Smith, F Fernandez - International Migration, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We analyse data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult
Competencies to reveal that immigrants in Canada and the United States make over $200 …

Discrimination systémique et intersectionnalité: la déqualification des immigrantes à Montréal

MT Chicha - Canadian journal of women and the law, 2012 - utpjournals.press
Depuis le début des années 90, le Canada et le Québec sélectionnent les candidats et les
candidates à l'immigration en fonction principalement de leurs qualifications …

Skill mismatch among migrant workers: evidence from a large multi-country dataset

S Visintin, K Tijdens, M van Klaveren - IZA Journal of Migration, 2015 - Springer
This article unravels the migrants' incidence of skill mismatch taking into consideration
different migration flows. Mismatch is the situation in which workers have jobs for which …