The Overeducation of Immigrants in Europe, with Tommaso Frattini
In the second episode of the GS4S podcasts mini-series, Colleen Boland and Ksenija Ivanović have a conversation with Tommaso Frattini, a labor economist specializing in economics of migration at the Associazione Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano, one of partner organizations at GS4S.
Frattini coordinates the Migration Research area at the Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano. He is also Professor of Economics at the University of Milan, co-director of the Global Migration Information Hub at Rockwool Foundation Berlin, and a Research Fellow at CEPR, Dondena and Institute of Labor Economics in Berlin.
In this episode, Frattini discusses the overeducation of tertiary-educated migrants (coming from both EU Member States and third countries) in European labour markets and explores the immigrant-native gap in overeducation levels. Frattini elaborates on policy implications of this research, and in particularly the importance of improved procedures for recognition of foreign qualifications, better facilitation of language learning and other types of integration measures to improve labor market entry.
Listen to the full episode here.
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