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ERIC Number: ED672962
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2024-May-22
Pages: 9
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-2563-8955
EISSN: N/A
Available Date: 0000-00-00
Trends in Education-Occupation Mismatch among Recent Immigrants with a Bachelor's Degree or Higher, 2001 to 2021. Economic and Social Reports. Catalogue No. 36-28-0001
Christoph Schimmele; Feng Hou
Statistics Canada
Selecting immigrants with high levels of education increases their chances of economic success. Immigrants with a bachelor's degree or higher are more adaptable to changes in the labour market and have steeper growth in employment earnings than those with a trades or high school education. However, many immigrants with a bachelor's degree or higher have occupations that underutilize their skills, which can reduce their employment income, productivity and well-being. This report updates the trends in education-occupation mismatch documented by Hou, Lu and Schimmele (2019) with census data from 2001 to 2021. Education-occupation mismatch is defined based on the educational requirements for occupations in the National Occupational Classification (NOC). Occupations were classified as those that require a bachelor's degree or higher (high-skilled occupations), some postsecondary education (medium-skilled occupations), or a high school education or less (low-skilled occupations). Workers with a bachelor's degree or higher who are employed in low-skilled occupations are considered to be overeducated for their jobs, those employed in medium-skilled occupations are marginally overeducated and those employed in high-skilled occupations are education-occupation matched. The study focuses on the outcomes of recent immigrants who have been permanent residents of Canada for 10 years or less in a given census year. The rate of education-occupation match of recent immigrants with a degree is an indicator of their long-term prospects for economic integration. In Canada, workers with a bachelor's degree or higher who have low-skilled occupations early in their careers have increasingly lower chances of transitioning to high-skilled occupations over time.
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Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Statistics Canada
Identifiers - Location: Canada
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