Education Mismatch and Return Migration in Egypt and Tunisia

The objective of this paper is to shed light on the issue of education mismatch in the context of return migration in Egypt and Tunisia. Using data on both return and non-migrants in Egypt and Tunisia, we analyze the skills that migrants acquire before and during migration and the way these skills a...

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Main Authors:	Anda David, Christophe J. Nordman
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille 2017-06-01
Series:	Espace populations sociétés
Subjects:	return migration education mismatch labor market Tunisia Egypt
Online Access:	http://journals.openedition.org/eps/7110

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title	Education Mismatch and Return Migration in Egypt and Tunisia
title_short	Education Mismatch and Return Migration in Egypt and Tunisia
title_full	Education Mismatch and Return Migration in Egypt and Tunisia
title_fullStr	Education Mismatch and Return Migration in Egypt and Tunisia
title_full_unstemmed	Education Mismatch and Return Migration in Egypt and Tunisia
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publisher	Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
series	Espace populations sociétés
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publishDate	2017-06-01
description	The objective of this paper is to shed light on the issue of education mismatch in the context of return migration in Egypt and Tunisia. Using data on both return and non-migrants in Egypt and Tunisia, we analyze the skills that migrants acquire before and during migration and the way these skills are used upon return. We find evidence of education mismatch, especially in Tunisia. Finally, we estimate the determinants of education mismatch on the Egyptian and Tunisian labour markets and find a significant positive effect of return migration on the probability of being overeducated.
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Education Mismatch and Return Migration in Egypt and Tunisia

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