Underemployment and Labor Market Incorporation of Highly Skilled Immigrants with Professional Skills

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dc.contributor.advisorMartin, Galen
dc.contributor.authorSchmidt Murillo, Karla
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-11T22:26:48Z
dc.date.available2019-01-11T22:26:48Z
dc.date.issued2019-01-11
dc.description.abstractThis thesis project examined underemployment at the state and national levels. Underemployment is the inability of highly skilled migrants with degrees from their home countries to enter the workforce in the receiving country. Pending and enacted legislation was analyzed at the state level to determine in which ways the state of Oregon can implement similar policies to effectively incorporate underemployed immigrants into the state workforce. This project utilized primary data sources at the state and federal level, migrant interviews were used as illustrations of the barriers that exist for underemployed migrants, and secondary data sources from the fields of economics, social sciences, political sciences, and population studies were utilized to provide an understanding of how underemployment is addressed at the national level. Overall, my research found underemployed professional migrants are greatly underutilized, which translates into missed economic opportunities for individual migrants and for the United States as a whole.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/24180
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectBrain Wasteen_US
dc.subjectForeign-Born Workersen_US
dc.subjectHighly Skilled Immigrantsen_US
dc.subjectImmigrationen_US
dc.subjectLabor Market Incorporationen_US
dc.subjectUnderemploymenten_US
dc.titleUnderemployment and Labor Market Incorporation of Highly Skilled Immigrants with Professional Skills
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of International Studies
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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