The paper investigates the relation between overeducation and self-employment, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012 and controlling for a list of demographic characteristics and general characteristics of 30 destination countries, it finds that the likelihood of being overeducated decreases for self-employed immigrants, with inconclusive results for self-employed natives. The results shed light on the extent to which immigrants adjust to labor market imperfections and barriers to employment and might help explain the higher incidence of self-employment that immigrants exhibit, when compared to natives. This is the first study to systematically study the nexus between overeducation and self-employment in a comparative framework. Moreover, the paper tests the robustness of the results by employing two different measures of overeducation, contributing to the literature of the measurement of overeducation.

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自营职业是更好的劳动力市场匹配的垫脚石：移民与本地人之间的比较

本文通过移民和本地人之间的比较分析，研究了过度教育与自营职业之间的关系。使用 2012 年欧盟劳动力调查并控制 30 个目的地国家的人口特征和一般特征列表，它发现自雇移民受过教育的可能性降低，而自雇本地人的结果不确定。结果揭示了移民适应劳动力市场不完善和就业障碍的程度，并可能有助于解释与本地人相比，移民表现出的自营职业发生率更高。这是第一个在比较框架中系统地研究过度教育和自雇之间关系的研究。而且，