Postgraduate education and job mismatch: the role of migration

Martina Aronica (), Alessandra Faggian, Debora Insolda and Davide Piacentino
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Martina Aronica: Università di Palermo

No 2020-10, Discussion Paper series in Regional Science & Economic Geography from Gran Sasso Science Institute, Social Sciences

Abstract: Despite the increase of doctoral studies, PhD holders face many obstacles in finding non-academic jobs matching their competencies. This paper explores this phenomenon under three angles: overeducation, overskilling and satisfaction. While considering a rich set of determinants, we particularly focus on the role of migration. Spatial mobility may represent not only a way to favour the education-job match at an aggregate level, but also a way to get a stronger motivation in searching a suitable job at an individual level. Looking at the case of Italy, we find a positive effect of migration on the education-job matching. We also find two evident gaps. The first between domestic and foreign labour markets and the second between genders.

Keywords: PhD degree; education-job mismatching; human capital migration; Italian regions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 J24 J61 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2020-11, Revised 2020-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-mig and nep-ure
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