Limited transferability of human capital across countries – the case of workers with foreign qualifications in Germany
Heft-Nr. 174
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.
Product details
- Editor
- Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung
- Publisher
- Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB)
- Appeared
- 2016
- Downloads
- 1605
- Series
- BIBB Fachbeiträge zur beruflichen Bildung
- ISBN
- 978-3-945981-38-2
- URN
- urn:nbn:de:0035-0599-6
- Languages
- English