Job-Education Mismatch and Its Impact on the Earnings of Immigrants: Evidence from Recent Arrivals to Canada

Table 4

Distribution of the job-education mismatches intensity (% of immigrants).

Intensity	Wave 1	Wave 2	Wave 3
≥9	2.36	1.9	1.69
8	2.03	2.11	1.74
7	2.21	2.208	1.72
6	7.7	6.86	6.282
5	8.952	8.63	7.506
4	16.51	15.77	16.66
3	16.92	15.9	14.43
2	10.86	10.64	10.02
1	6.85	6.85	7.781
0	9.55	10.37	11.11
−1	5.96	6.88	7.803
−2	5.24	5.6	6.353
−3	2.093	2.674	3
−4	0.975	1.345	1.445
−5	0.607	0.6922	0.82
−6	0.3	0.458	0.67
−7	0.38	0.53	0.35
−8	0.38	0.33	0.25
≥−9	0.13	0.25	0.35

Source: author’s compilation. All statistics are population weighted using the LSIC sampling weights.