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Pecoraro, Marco
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Pecoraro, Marco
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Lecturer & Scientific collaborator
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marco.pecoraro@unine.ch
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- PublicationAccès libreDoes Certifying Foreign Qualifications Lead to Better Immigrant Skills Utilization?(2023)
; Massimiliano TaniUsing a novel panel dataset on recent immigrants in Switzerland, we study the relationship between the degree of skills utilization, the foreign-acquired education and its certification in the host country. We find that the relationship with foreign education is negative, especially when acquired in a non-EU country, in line with the literature documenting the imperfect international transferability of human capital. Obtaining a “Certificate of Equivalence” in Switzerland makes this relationship statistically non-significant: in other words, the certification enables immigrants to enjoy the same degree of skills utilization in the Swiss labour market as those with Swiss education. Additional results suggest that immigrants with a foreign but not Swiss-certified education keep the degree of skill utilization as high as it would be if they were Swiss educated when they obtain a job contract or job offer before migrating to Switzerland. These findings are robust to controlling for self-selection on unobserved characteristics. - PublicationAccès libreHow effective are integration policy reforms? The case of asylum-related migrants.(2022-12-01T00:00:00Z)
; ; - PublicationAccès libreHow effective are integration policy reforms? The case of asylum-related migrants(2022-1-28)
; ; - PublicationAccès libreDoes Educational Mismatch Affect Emigration Behaviour?(2021-11-01T00:00:00Z)
; ; Tani, MassimilianoThis paper uses linked Swiss administrative and survey data to examine the relationship between educational mismatch in the labour market and emigration decisions, carrying out the analysis for both Swiss native and previous immigrant workers. In turn, migrants' decisions separate returning home from onward migration to a third country. We find that undereducation is positively associated with the probability of emigration and return to the country of origin. In contrast, the reverse relationship is found between overeducation and emigration, especially among non-European immigrant workers. According to the predictions of the traditional model of migration, based on self-selection, migrants returning home are positively selected relative to migrants emigrating to other countries. We also find that immigrants from a country outside the EU27/EFTA have little incentive to return home and generally accept jobs for which they are mismatched in Switzerland. These results highlight the relevance to understand emigration behaviours in relation to the type of migrant that is most integrated, and productive, in the Swiss market, hence enabling better migration and domestic labour market policy design. - PublicationAccès libre
- PublicationAccès libreModification de la loi fédérale sur les étrangers et l’intégration : restriction des voyages à l’étranger et modification du statut de l’admission provisoire. Prise de position scientifique(Neuchâtel, 2019)
; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; - PublicationAccès libreDoes integration policy improve labour market, sociocultural and psychological adaptation of asylum-related immigrants? Evidence from Sri Lankans in Switzerland(Neuchâtel Université de Neuchâtel, 2019)
; ; - PublicationAccès libreA Foreigner Who Doesn’t Steal My Job: The Role of Unemployment Risk and Values in Attitudes towards Equal Opportunities(2016)
; Immigration has become systematically politicized and opposed by many individuals. We examine individual attitudes towards equal opportunities for foreigners and Swiss citizens, using cross-sectional data from the Swiss Household Panel. Individuals with low levels of education tend to oppose foreigners, while the opposition by individuals with high levels of education increases with the risk of unemployment. Values and beliefs explain the negative attitudes of individuals with low levels of education, but not the association with the risk of unemployment for individuals with high levels of education. Clearly, both values and economic factors are important for explaining attitudes towards foreigners. - PublicationAccès libreThe Gender Gap in Mental Health: Immigrants in SwitzerlandIntroduction: Many aspects of health differ significantly between men and women, including mental health where there are pronounced differences. Women are more likely than men to seek treatment for psychological problems and depression. Main: In the literature, two broad explanations are offered for these gender differences. On the one hand, socio-economic factors such as the position in the labor market are highlighted. On the other hand, differences in mental health are associated with aspects of social capital, such as the support individuals receive from others. Immigrant populations are ideal to study these mechanisms, as they display great variance in both dimensions. Here we show that both mechanisms contribute to reported mental health. Discussion: Statistically speaking, socio-economic factors and the perception that one is in control of one’s life can explain substantial parts of the gender differences in mental health. Of the socio-economic variables, the most important covariates are the level of education and labor market status. Indeed, there does not appear to be anything particular about immigrant populations as is sometimes suggested in migration studies. Implications: These results follow that policies to alleviate the gender gap in mental health will probably be most successful if they focus on improving health and well-being generally rather than focusing on gender or being of immigrant origin. For immigrants and non-immigrants alike, this means facilitating labor force participation such as by aiding reintegration and training for low-skilled women.