From engineer to taxi driver? Language proficiency and the occupational skills of immigrants.

Autor/inn/en	Imai, Susumu; Stacey, Derek; Warman, Casey
Institution	USA / General Land Office
Titel	From engineer to taxi driver? Language proficiency and the occupational skills of immigrants. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Vom Ingenieur zum Taxifahrer? Sprachkenntnisse und berufliche Qualifikationen von Einwanderern.
Quelle	Maastricht (2018), 63 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	GLO discussion paper. 239
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Fremdsprachenkenntnisse; Englisch; Französisch; Berufliche Qualifikation; Bildungsadäquate Beschäftigung; Qualifikationsverwertung; Unterwertige Beschäftigung; Überqualifikation; Kanada
Abstract	"We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We first augment a model of occupational choice to study the implications of language proficiency on the cross-border transferability of occupational human capital. We then explore the empirical predictions using information about the skill requirements from the O*NET and a unique dataset that includes both the last source country occupation and the first four years of occupations in Canada. We supplement the analysis using Census estimates for the same cohort with source country occupational skill requirements predicted using detailed human capital related information such as field of study. We find that male immigrants to Canada were employed in source country occupations that typically require high levels of cognitive skills, but rely less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the opposite. Consistent with the hypothesized asymmetric role of language in the transferability of previously acquired cognitive and manual skills, these discrepancies are larger among immigrants with limited language fluency." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2019/1