Migrant Network and Immigrants’ Occupational Mismatch
基于自评技能优势与实际工作的技能内容差异，定义了水平和垂直职业错配的新指标，并利用塞内加尔移民调查数据发现通过移民网络找到工作能降低垂直错配概率，但对水平错配无显著影响。
This article defines new measures of horizontal and vertical occupational mismatch based on the difference between the skill content of occupations in which individuals have a self-assessed productive advantage, and that of their actual job. It then investigates the impact of network use to find a job on occupational mismatch in the case of immigrants, using original survey data collected among Senegalese immigrants in four host countries. Estimation results show that migrants who obtained their job through the migrant network have a lower probability of negative vertical mismatch. By contrast, network use is not found to significantly affect horizontal mismatch.