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Hongxia Shan – Studies in Continuing Education, 2024
Research shows a positive association between skilled migration and innovation. Related literature however is largely limited to the use of proxies such as patents, and publications. There is also a lack of attention to how innovation is accomplished in practices. This paper addresses these gaps with an examination of the innovative contributions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Skilled Workers, Engineering
Salvatori, Sara; Terrón-Caro, Teresa – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
This article examines the integration of skilled Mexican female workers in the Monterrey labor market, and the relationship with the genesis of migratory flows toward the city of Houston. Following this line of investigation, the feminization of Mexican migration toward the US is considered, in part, to be the result of unfavorable conditions…
Descriptors: Females, Employed Women, Skilled Workers, Immigrants
Hyeongsuk Jin; Amanda Kopp – Statistics Canada, 2023
Recent immigrants in Canada can face challenges related to labour integration and a lack of recognition for their skills and experiences. Previous studies have shown that Canadian postsecondary education could improve immigrants' labour market outcomes because this may lead to recognition of previously acquired skills and credentials. Despite the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migrant Education, Immigrants, Skilled Workers
Charkasova, Aynur – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
The demand for U.S. temporary workers has doubled since the 1990s, especially after the technology boom. American employers have benefited from hiring foreign talent for STEM occupations. Despite the mandatory prevailing wage regulations, temporary skilled immigrants have been criticized for their "willingness" to work for lower wages.…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Salary Wage Differentials, Skilled Workers, Science Careers
Chhinzer, Nita; Oh, Jinuk – Education & Training, 2022
Purpose: This study explores employer perspectives regarding barriers to and responsibility for the workforce integration of skilled immigrants. Specifically, this study assesses employer perceptions of how influential various barriers are to the integration of self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) in the workplace, uncovers employer perceptions of…
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Human Resources, Labor Force Development, Skilled Workers
Aleksandar Chonevski – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examined the phenomenon known as Brain Drain and how it affects the identities of educated Balkan immigrants who have emigrated to the United States to study in a university and willingly accept their transformational process as a hybrid identity. Hybrid identities (Smith & Leavy, 2008) of skilled immigrants contribute to the…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Immigrants, Self Concept, Study Abroad
Kashif Raza; Catherine Chua – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Despite recognising multilingualism as a reality and multilingual workforce as an advantage, language policies continue to favour certain languages over others. Using a case study of Canada's language-in-immigration policy related to three federally administered immigration programs, this study is an attempt to understand how the macro-level…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Immigration, Skilled Workers
Brissett, Nigel O. M. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2023
The rate of emigration of highly educated people from the Caribbean is one of the highest in the world but little research exists on this phenomenon. This paper helps to fill this gap by focusing on one particular subset of Caribbean skilled emigrants, those working in higher education in the US, including academics and administrators. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Immigration, Skilled Workers, Foreign Countries
Pivovarova, Margarita; Powers, Jeanne M. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2022
In this study, we investigated the factors associated with education-job mismatches among US workers by immigrant generation. We used the data from the U.S. sample of the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) and documented the distribution of education-job mismatches across selected independent variables. We…
Descriptors: Adults, Immigrants, Labor Market, Education Work Relationship
George Marshall; Eric Fecteau – Statistics Canada, 2023
The contribution of immigration to the Canadian economy and society has been of continued importance in recent decades, due to being the main driver of population growth and their importance on the labour market. Given that Canada and other countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are competing for skilled…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Employment Qualifications
Dovchin, Sender; Dryden, Stephanie – Applied Linguistics, 2022
Drawing on linguistic ethnographic data, this study examines the language-based discriminatory experiences of skilled transnational migrants in the labour market of Australia. Moving beyond two main concepts of 'interlingual' and 'intra-lingual' discrimination in applied linguistics, this article points out the concept of 'translingual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Skilled Workers, Ethnography, Labor Market
Lising, Loy – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
Skilled migration to Australia depends on a good command of English. Where skilled migrants lack English -- like the participants in this study -- yet fulfil the vocational-skill employment requirement, they are granted temporary visas and provisionally employed but expected to improve their English on the job. They are assumed by mainstream…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asians, English (Second Language), English for Special Purposes
Bergson-Shilcock, Amanda – National Skills Coalition, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a stark spotlight on need for digital skills among a wide swath of the American workforce. But even before the pandemic, the US labor market reflected a growing demand for workers across industries to have strong digital skills. This report uses data from a rigorously designed international assessment to analyze…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Skill Development, Job Skills, Labor Market
Thondhlana, Juliet – Educational Review, 2020
Research on the labour market experiences of highly skilled migrants has revealed the crippling employability challenges they face in the UK workplace resulting from the devaluation of their homeland qualifications and experiences. Studies on highly skilled migrants from Zimbabwe have revealed how migrants have to resort to semi-skilled and…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Labor Market, Immigrants, Employment Qualifications
Zhang, Fan – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2022
This paper investigates the language fluency problems of skilled immigrants from mainland China to Canada. It capitalises on interview data to explore the relationships between Chinese immigrants' identities, second language practices, and language skills. It reports the informants' difficulty in integrating into their workplaces and their…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Educational Attainment, Asians, Language Fluency