Born abroad and educated here: examining the impacts of education and skill mismatch among immigrant graduates in Europe

McGuinness, Seamus; Byrne, Delma

doi:10.1186/s40176-015-0039-6

Table 4 Probability of overskilling (probit, marginal effects)

From: Born abroad and educated here: examining the impacts of education and skill mismatch among immigrant graduates in Europe

	(1)	(2)	(3)
VARIABLES	Spec1	Spec1	Spec1
Overedjob1	−0.01	−0.01	−0.01
	(0.005)	(0.005)	(0.005)
Overskilljob1	0.10***	0.10***	0.10***
	(0.005)	(0.005)	(0.005)
Male	0.01**	0.01**	0.01**
	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)
Labour exp	−0.00***	−0.00***	−0.00***
	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)
Age	0.00**	0.00**	0.00**
	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)
Years HE	0.00	0.00	0.00
	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)
Humanities	−0.01	−0.01	−0.01
	(0.007)	(0.007)	(0.007)
Social	−0.00	−0.00	−0.00
	(0.006)	(0.006)	(0.006)
Science	0.01	0.01	0.01
	(0.007)	(0.007)	(0.007)
Engineering	0.00	0.00	0.00
	(0.007)	(0.007)	(0.007)
Unemploy hist	0.01***	0.01***	0.01***
	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)
Migrant	0.03***
	(0.009)
Estab migrant		0.03***
		(0.011)
New migrant		0.02
		(0.017)
EU 15			0.03**
			(0.014)
EU other			0.01
			(0.042)
High income			0.03
			(0.029)
Rest of world			0.02*
			(0.014)
Course employer	−0.01**	−0.01**	−0.01**
	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)
Course prestige	−0.02***	−0.02***	−0.02***
	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)
Vocational course	−0.00	−0.00	−0.00
	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)
Fieldmatchnow	−0.14***	−0.14***	−0.14***
	(0.006)	(0.006)	(0.006)
Fieldrelatednow	−0.10***	−0.10***	−0.10***
	(0.005)	(0.005)	(0.005)
Hours	−0.00*	−0.00*	−0.00*
	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)
R&D Firm	−0.01***	−0.01***	−0.01***
	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)
Size 50 − 99	−0.02**	−0.02**	−0.02**
	(0.008)	(0.008)	(0.008)
Size 100–249	0.01	0.01	0.01
	(0.007)	(0.007)	(0.007)
Size 250–999	0.01	0.01	0.01
	(0.006)	(0.006)	(0.006)
Size 1000+	0.00	0.00	0.00
	(0.005)	(0.005)	(0.005)
Public sector	−0.02***	−0.02***	−0.02***
	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)
N of employers	0.00*	0.00*	0.00*
	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)
Supervisor	−0.03***	−0.03***	−0.03***
	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)
Italy	0.00	0.00	0.00
	(0.009)	(0.009)	(0.009)
Spain	0.00	0.00	0.00
	(0.009)	(0.009)	(0.009)
France	−0.00	−0.00	−0.00
	(0.010)	(0.010)	(0.010)
Austria	−0.01	−0.01	−0.01
	(0.011)	(0.011)	(0.011)
Netherlands	−0.01	−0.01	−0.01
	(0.009)	(0.009)	(0.009)
UK	−0.01	−0.01	−0.01
	(0.011)	(0.011)	(0.011)
Finland	−0.02	−0.02	−0.02
	(0.010)	(0.010)	(0.010)
Norway	−0.01	−0.01	−0.01
	(0.010)	(0.010)	(0.010)
Portugal	−0.02	−0.02	−0.02
	(0.019)	(0.019)	(0.019)
Belgium	−0.01	−0.01	−0.01
	(0.011)	(0.011)	(0.011)
Constant	−0.06**	−0.06**	−0.06**
	(0.025)	(0.025)	(0.025)
Pseudo R²	0.27	0.27	0.27
Observations	13,342	13,342	13,342

Standard errors in parentheses
*** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.1

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