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Labor economics

the placement of educated immigrants in jobs below their training, which varies by origin country and lowers the return to their schooling.

In labor economics, brain waste refers to the placement of educated immigrants in jobs below their training, which varies by origin country and lowers the return to their schooling. This meaning comes from Mattoo (2008) in Journal of Development Economics.[1]

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Mattoo, A., Neagu, I. C., & Özden, Ç. (2008). Brain waste? Educated immigrants in the US labor market. Journal of Development Economics, 87(2), 255-269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2007.05.001

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