Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource
Titel der Quelle:
Social Inclusion
Angaben zur Quelle:
6 (2018) 3 ; 34-47, Online-Ressource
DDC:
305.5
Kurzfassung:
Abstract: Previous research on the Italian case has shown that non-Western immigrants are very likely to hold low-qualified jobs and that their occupational mobility chances are rather poor, which suggests low returns to education. In this paper, we investigate whether, and to what extent, immigrants’ different areas of origin moderate the returns to educational degrees obtained in the origin country. Data from a survey on the immigrant population (carried out in 2011-2012) are used, and, differently from previous studies, we focus on returns to origin-country education with respect to both the socioeconomic status of the first job found on arrival and the subsequent occupational mobility. The results show that almost all non-Western immigrants experience remarkably low returns to post-secondary education on their first job. Contrary to other West-European countries, those returns in Italy are only slightly different by area of origin, which suggests that differences in the transferability a
Anmerkung:
Veröffentlichungsversion
,
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
DOI:
10.17645/si.v6i3.1442
URN:
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-58268-7
URL:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-58268-7
URL:
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v6i3.1442