CMR Podcast - GS4S mini-series #2: Tommaso Frattini on the overeducation of immigrants in Europe

Welcome to the CMR Podcast's mini-series about the Horizon Europe project GS4S – Global Strategy for Skills, Migration and Development. In this project – running from 2024 to 2026 - fourteen partners from ten countries seek to better understand global skills shortages in the Digital, Care, and Construction sectors, and foster skills development through innovative analyses. The project proposes multi-level evidence-based policies on labour migration governance and alternative ways to address these shortages in six regions: EU, EEA, Western Balkan, Middle East and Northern Africa, West Africa, and South/South-East Asia. In a mini-series of six podcasts, we will present some of GS4S results, and discuss their policy implications.

In the second episode of the GS4S mini-series, Colleen Boland and Ksenija Ivanović have a conversation with Tommaso Frattini, a labor economist specializing in economics of migration at the Associazione Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, one of partner organizations at GS4S.

Frattini coordinates the Migration Research area at the Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano. He is also Professor of Economics at the University of Milan, co-director of the Global Migration Information Hub at Rockwool Foundation Berlin, and a Research Fellow at CEPR, Dondena and Institute of Labor Economics in Berlin.

In this episode, Frattini discusses the overeducation of tertiary-educated migrants (coming from both EU Member States and third countries) in European labour markets and explores the immigrant-native gap in overeducation levels. Frattini elaborates on policy implications of this research, and in particularly the importance of improved procedures for recognition of foreign qualifications, better facilitation of language learning and other types of integration measures to improve labor market entry.

The Horizon Europe project GS4S was funded by the European Union

Shownotes

Horizon Europe GS4S project: Home - GS4S

Working paper (English): Dalmonte, A., Frattini, T., & Giorgini, S. (2024). The Overeducation of Immigrants in Europe. Global Strategy for Skills, Migration and Development (GS4S). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14071464

Interactive dashboard: Frattini, T., & Giorgini, S. (2024). Interactive Dashboard: Skill Waste Across EU Member States. Global Strategy for Skills, Migration and Development (GS4S). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14072628