Brain waste? National and regional analysis of educated immigrants in Canada

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dc.contributor.advisorChowdhury, Murshed
dc.contributor.advisorSolati, Fariba
dc.contributor.authorZambrano, Fabiana Rosado
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-07T18:37:44Z
dc.date.available2023-12-07T18:37:44Z
dc.date.issued2022-08
dc.description.abstractCanada benefits yearly from the brain gain of immigrants who are admitted in the country based on their human capital, but to what extent are they utilizing their formal education in the labour market? From a labour market perspective, it’s important for immigrants to utilize their education in their subsequent occupations to ensure economic integration, labour productivity, and economic development. Using Census 2016, we investigate whether immigrants work in occupations that match their education or whether they are mismatched due to over/undereducation in the labour market at the national and regional level. The multinomial logistic analysis shows that immigrants from specific source regions are more likely than others to be over/undereducated for their occupation. The latter indicates immigrants are overachieving in their occupation. The former implies brain waste. At the regional level, immigrants in Atlantic Canada have a higher likelihood of a job-education match compared to other Canadian regions.
dc.description.copyright© Fabiana Rosado Zambrano, 2022
dc.format.extentviii, 73
dc.format.mediumelectronic
dc.identifier.urihttps://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/handle/1882/37597
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of New Brunswick
dc.rightshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
dc.subject.disciplineEconomics
dc.titleBrain waste? National and regional analysis of educated immigrants in Canada
dc.typemaster report
oaire.license.conditionother
thesis.degree.disciplineEconomics
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of New Brunswick
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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