Underemployment and Labor Market Incorporation of Highly Skilled Immigrants with Professional Skills
This thesis project examined underemployment at the state and national levels. Underemployment is the inability of highly skilled migrants with degrees from their home countries to enter the workforce in the receiving country. Pending and enacted legislation was analyzed at the state level to determ...
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ndltd-uoregon.edu-oai-scholarsbank.uoregon.edu-1794-241802019-01-13T17:22:55Z Underemployment and Labor Market Incorporation of Highly Skilled Immigrants with Professional Skills Schmidt Murillo, Karla Martin, Galen Brain Waste Foreign-Born Workers Highly Skilled Immigrants Immigration Labor Market Incorporation Underemployment This thesis project examined underemployment at the state and national levels. Underemployment is the inability of highly skilled migrants with degrees from their home countries to enter the workforce in the receiving country. Pending and enacted legislation was analyzed at the state level to determine in which ways the state of Oregon can implement similar policies to effectively incorporate underemployed immigrants into the state workforce. This project utilized primary data sources at the state and federal level, migrant interviews were used as illustrations of the barriers that exist for underemployed migrants, and secondary data sources from the fields of economics, social sciences, political sciences, and population studies were utilized to provide an understanding of how underemployment is addressed at the national level. Overall, my research found underemployed professional migrants are greatly underutilized, which translates into missed economic opportunities for individual migrants and for the United States as a whole. 2019-01-11T22:26:48Z 2019-01-11T22:26:48Z 2019-01-11 Electronic Thesis or Dissertation http://hdl.handle.net/1794/24180 en_US All Rights Reserved. University of Oregon |
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This thesis project examined underemployment at the state and national levels. Underemployment is the inability of highly skilled migrants with degrees from their home countries to enter the workforce in the receiving country. Pending and enacted legislation was analyzed at the state level to determine in which ways the state of Oregon can implement similar policies to effectively incorporate underemployed immigrants into the state workforce. This project utilized primary data sources at the state and federal level, migrant interviews were used as illustrations of the barriers that exist for underemployed migrants, and secondary data sources from the fields of economics, social sciences, political sciences, and population studies were utilized to provide an understanding of how underemployment is addressed at the national level. Overall, my research found underemployed professional migrants are greatly underutilized, which translates into missed economic opportunities for individual migrants and for the United States as a whole. |
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Underemployment and Labor Market Incorporation of Highly Skilled Immigrants with Professional Skills |
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