The skill paradox: explaining and reducing employment discrimination against skilled immigrants

Employment discrimination against immigrants 1 Running head: Employment discrimination against immigrants The Skill Paradox: Explaining and Reducing Employment Discrimination against skilled Immigrants

Using a social identity theory approach, we theorized that recruiters might be particularly biased against skilled immigrant applicants. We refer to this phenomenon as a skill paradox, according to which immigrants are more likely to be targets of employment discrimination the more skilled they are. Furthermore, building on the common ingroup identity model, we proposed that this paradox can be...

Employment Effects of Low-Skilled Immigrants in Korea

Employment Effects of Low-Skilled Immigrants in Korea This study examines the impact of inflows of foreign workers on Korean natives’ economic performance – namely, employment – through the Employment Permit System, the basis of Korea’s system by which to introduce low-skilled immigrants. Using National Employment Insurance data, analyses reveal that the adjustment cost related to the introduct...

Ethnic and Racial Discrimination against Immigrants

This paper examines the ethnic and racial discrimination faced by immigrants in workplace. The challenges immigrants face on and off the workplace due to their status, their amount of legal protection, and their knowledge of the work and legal system are illustrated. Although there have been many debates surrounding U.S. immigration policies concerning the assertion that natives lose jobs to im...

Self-Employment and Earnings among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two groups decreased in the 1980’s. Given the high selfemployment rates of this group of workers, about 20 pe...

Employment discrimination against persons with AIDS.