Immigrant Overeducation across Generations: The Role of Gender and Part-Time Work

Kevin Pineda-Hernández (), Francois Rycx and Mélanie Volral

No 17027, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: A large body of literature shows that first-generation immigrants born in developing countries experience a higher likelihood of being overeducated than natives (i.e. immigrant overeducation). However, evidence is remarkably scarce when it comes to the overeducation of second-generation immigrants. Using a matched employer-employee database for Belgium over the period 1999-2016 and generalized ordered logit regressions, we contribute to the literature with one of the first studies on the intergenerational nexus between overeducation and origin among tertiary-educated workers. We show that immigrant overeducation disappears across two generations when workers work full-time. However, immigrant overeducation is a persistent intergenerational phenomenon when workers work part-time. Our gender-interacted estimates endorse these findings for female and male immigrants.

Keywords: generalized ordered logit; overeducation; labour market integration; intergenerational studies; immigrants; moderating factors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I22 J15 J24 J61 J62 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 pages
Date: 2024-05
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Published - published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2025, 77 (2), 445-465

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