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    Should I stay or should I go? Skilled immigrants' perceived brain-waste and social embeddedness

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    Authors
    Farivar, F.
    Cameron, R.
    Dantas, Jaya A R
    Date
    2021
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Farivar, F. and Cameron, R. and Dantas, J.A.R. 2021. Should I stay or should I go? Skilled immigrants' perceived brain-waste and social embeddedness. Personnel Review.
    Source Title
    Personnel Review
    DOI
    10.1108/PR-06-2020-0412
    ISSN
    0048-3486
    Faculty
    Faculty of Health Sciences
    School
    Office of the Pro Vice Chancellor Health Sciences
    Remarks

    This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication in Personnel Review.

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86970
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Purpose: Drawing on embeddedness theory, we examine how skilled immigrants' perceived brain-waste affects their social embeddedness. Social embeddedness facilitates the acquisition of host country-specific human capital, which, in return, can accelerate the transfer of immigrants' human capital in the workplace.

    Design/methodology/approach: In total, 397 skilled immigrants in Australia participated in this study. We applied a set-theoretic approach to decode the complexity and interplay among the key concepts used in this study.

    Findings: We found the impacts of psychological workplace wellbeing and workplace discrimination on social embeddedness differ between skilled immigrants who experience perceived brain-waste and skilled immigrants whose skills were recognized by employers. The results suggest that job satisfaction is the most critical factor contributing to social embeddedness among skilled immigrants who did not report brain-waste. Furthermore, we found that married skilled male immigrants who reported brain-waste still could embed socially if they did not directly experience workplace discrimination.

    Originality/value: The majority of previous studies have compared skilled immigrants with their local-born colleagues, but we compared two groups of skilled migrants in the current study. We adopted fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to test how unique configurations of several variables can ease their social embeddedness into the host society.

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