signals to modify employers' beliefs. Relevant mechanisms for reaching this purpose are personal reputation; exploiting ethnic …. This could explain the over education problem that characterizes many countries, Italy included. The aim of the paper is to … investigate whether the above mentioned mechanisms are adopted by immigrants in Italy, a crucial country for EU immigration flows …

signals to modify employers’ beliefs. Relevant mechanisms for reaching this purpose are personal reputation; exploiting ethnic …. This could explain the over education problem that characterizes many countries, Italy included. The aim of the paper is to … investigate whether the above mentioned mechanisms are adopted by immigrants in Italy, a crucial country for EU immigration flows …

We interview both parents and their children enrolled in six primary schools in the district of Treviso (Italy). We …