From: Immigrant over- and under-education: the role of home country labour market experience
Education mismatch in home country | Education mismatch in Australia – 5 months after arrival | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unemployed | Over-educated | Correctly matched | Under-educated | Total | |
Not working | 46.81 | 12.77 | 28.37 | 12.06 | 100 |
Over-educated | 39.11 | 41.13 | 19.35 | 0.40 | 100 |
Correctly matched | 26.50 | 11.98 | 59.21 | 2.31 | 100 |
Under-educated | 33.96 | 2.80 | 16.98 | 46.26 | 100 |
Total | 31.35 | 12.53 | 42.99 | 13.13 | 100 |