Overeducation and overskilling in Australia: Second generation Greek-Australians and Italian-Australians
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DownloadMessinis, George (2008) Overeducation and overskilling in Australia: Second generation Greek-Australians and Italian-Australians. Working Paper. Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.
Abstract
We utilise HILDA data over the period 2001-2005 to evaluate the performance of second generation Greek-Australians and Italian-Australians in the labour market. We focus on the effect of overeducation, undereducation, languages-other-than-English (LOTE), and ethnicity on weekly earnings of full-time workers. The evidence has a follows: (a) most Greek-Australians are over-represented amongst the overeducated; (b) overeducation and overskilling can be attributed to a lack of new skills on the job, parental occupational status, non-English speaking overseas born, and unobserved characteristics of second generation females; (c) LOTE does not seem to make a contribution to earning of individual workers, and (d) the use of LOTE amongst the two second generation groups has declined; second generation women in part-time employment are an exception.
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| Item type | Monograph (Working Paper) |
| URI | https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/15906 |
| DOI | No. 37 |
| Subjects | Historical > FOR Classification > 1402 Applied Economics Historical > Faculty/School/Research Centre/Department > Centre for Strategic Economic Studies (CSES) |
| Keywords | Italian-Australians, Greek-Australians, Australian labour market, HILDA, LOTE, overeducation, overskilling |
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