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First, evidence on immigrant educational mismatch is sparse in Sweden.
Using Swedish register data from 2001 2008, we extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by analyzing incidence, wage effects and state dependence in overeducation among natives and immigrants.
In the search for reasons underlying the immigrant educational mismatch, one starting point is to decompose the lower payoff to schooling for foreign born from non-Western countries compared to natives.
In general, the economic literature on immigrant educational attainment focuses on post-migration schooling, pre-migration schooling and total attainment of schooling which equals the sum of pre- and post- migration schooling.
Second, we extend the immigrant educational mismatch research area by estimating the extent to which there exists state dependence in overeducation and if this appears to be a more severe problem among non-Western immigrants than among natives.
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Specifically, natives would earn approximately 0.2 log points more for English-speaking immigrants' educational attainment and 0.5 log points more for non-English-speaking immigrants' education.
The results reveal that, for immigrants, educational attainment levels do not substantially correlate with employment status persistence.
Overall, for children of immigrants, educational trajectories and achievements vary according to parental socioeconomic backgrounds, home environments, and the neighbourhood and school contexts.
In any case, the attenuation bias that may arise due to immigrants' educational downgrading should be attenuated by our instrumentation strategy (since our instrument should not be correlated with the error term).
On the whole then, immigrants' educational attainment is polarized and non-European well-established immigrants are less likely to be very poorly educated [ 13]." Socio-economic status plays an important role in the adaptation process.
Limited information about immigrant doctors' educational background.
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