Immigrant Overeducation Across Generations
Kevin Pineda-Hernández  1, 2, 3@  , François Rycx  1@  , Mélanie Volral  2@  
1 : Universite Libre de Bruxelles
2 : Université de Mons
3 : Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique  (FNRS)

A large body of literature shows that first-generation immigrants born in developing countries face a significantly higher likelihood of being overeducated than natives. However, when it comes to assessing their descendants' overeducation, evidence is remarkably scarce. Therefore, using granular employer-employee data for Belgium over the period 1999-2016 and generalized ordered logit regressions, we investigate the intergenerational relationship between overeducation and origin among tertiary-educated workers. We find that immigrant overeducation disappears across two generations, except for workers originating from the Maghreb. However, immigrant overeducation appears to be a persistent intergenerational issue within the cohort of part-time female and male workers.


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