Limited transferability of human capital across countries - the case of workers with foreign qualifications in Germany, vol 174

Daniela Rohrbach-Schmidt and Michael Tiemann

in Wissenschaftliche Diskussionspapiere from Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), Bonn

Abstract: So far, only limited evidence exists on skill utilisation beyond over- or under-education among immigrants. Our study tries to fill this gap by exploiting recent data of the BIBB/BAuA Employment Survey 2012, which allow for observing levels of both educational and skill mismatch among workers with foreign qualifications. For this, we focus on a sample of immigrant workers that is comparatively highly qualified, and thus respresents a selective sample of the much larger group of all migrants in Germany. The results of a propensity-score based reweighting approach suggest that, even in this selective group, being an immigrant significantly increases the probability of being over-educated, but that some part of the educational mismatch can be attributed to skills heterogeneity. (Authors' abstract, BIBB-Doku)

Date: 2016
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