SOCB54H3 Chapter 4: Impact of Canadian postsecondary education on occupational prestige of highly educated immigrants
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Impact of canadian postsecondary education on occupational prestige of highly educated immigrants. The international mobility of highly skilled workers led to large migration flows toward developed countries. Canada in particular attracted large infolows of highly educated immigrants whose economic status in the host country does not correspond to their education and premigration work experiences. Economic outcomes of highly educated immigrants to canada are poorer than in other major immigrant-receiving countries such as the us or australia. Canada immigrants typicall experience lower levels of economic success than natives born workers. Underemployment is vexing to immigrant workers with high skill levels who are relgated to low-paying jobs for which they are overqualified and where their skills are either poorly utilized or mismatched. Occupational prestige plays in the settlement success of immigrants has not been extensively examined, but premilinary work by frank suggest its importance to their perceived success in the labour makrer and society.
