Does Educational Mismatch Affect Emigration Behaviour?

This paper uses linked Swiss administrative and survey data to examine the relationship between educational mismatch in labour market emigration decisions, carrying out analysis for both native previous immigrant workers. In turn, migrants' decisions separate returning home from onward migration a third country. We find that undereducation is positively associated with probability of return country origin. contrast, reverse found overeducation emigration, especially among non-European According predictions traditional model migration, based on self-selection, migrants are selected relative emigrating other countries. also immigrants outside EU27/EFTA have little incentive generally accept jobs which they mismatched Switzerland. These results highlight relevance understand behaviours relation type migrant most integrated, productive, market, hence enabling better domestic policy design.