Should I stay or should I go? Skilled immigrants' perceived brain-waste and social embeddedness

Purpose Drawing on embeddedness theory, we examine how skilled immigrants' perceived brain-waste affects their social embeddedness. Social facilitates the acquisition of host country-specific human capital, which, in return, can accelerate transfer capital workplace. Design/methodology/approach In total, 397 immigrants Australia participated this study. We applied a set-theoretic approach to decode complexity and interplay among key concepts used Findings found impacts psychological workplace wellbeing discrimination differ between who experience whose skills were recognized by employers. The results suggest that job satisfaction is most critical factor contributing did not report brain-waste. Furthermore, married male reported still could embed socially if they directly discrimination. Originality/value majority previous studies have compared with local-born colleagues, but two groups migrants current adopted fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis test unique configurations several variables ease into society.