| "(...) The migration literature (e.g. Chiswick and Miller, 2007, OECD, 2007) shows that cross-border skill transfer is associated with increased jobeducation mismatch. The probability of over-educated employment is lower among natives than foreign born, indicating problems in transferring formal education across borders, and the probability of under-educated employment
is higher, which also suggests difficulties in transferring informally obtained skills (Sanroma et. al, 2009). At the same time the over-education literature (e.g. Büchel and Batu, 2003) argues that commuting may be a means to improve job-education matches. Commuters within a country should therefore experience lower over-education and higher under-education than non-commuters. This may, however, not apply to cross-border commuters. They could have higher job-education mismatch than non-commuters if problems associated with cross-border skill transfer dominate any jobeducation mismatch reducing effects of commuting. This contribution, to the best of my knowledge, is the first to directly examine whether the problems of job-education mismatch often found among migrants also apply to commuters and to compare cross-border commuters to within-country and non-commuters in this respect. (...)" |
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