Unraveling the Dynamics of Immigrant Engineers’ Full-Utilization in Australia

Authors

Dilek Cetindamar Kozanoglu, University of Technology Sydney
Tugrul U. Daim, Portland State UniversityFollow
Angel Contreras-Cruz, Portland State UniversityFollow

Published In

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Document Type

Citation

Publication Date

6-27-2021

Abstract

The study aims to improve our understanding of the full-utilization of immigrant engineers by answering three research questions: 1) what are the economic and social costs of the underutilization of immigrant engineers, 2) what factors determine immigrant engineers’ employment, and 3) what might be potential solutions to tackle with their underutilization? We adopt the intersectionality theory to observe a rich set of social factors influential in immigrant engineers’ underutilization by using 188 surveys and 14 interviews of immigrant engineers living in Australia. This article concludes with the findings’ theoretical and policy implications, followed by suggestions for future studies.

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Locate the Document

https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2021.3086456

DOI

10.1109/TEM.2021.3086456

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/35960

Publisher

IEEE

Citation Details

Kozanoglu, D. C., Daim, T. U., & Contreras-Cruz, A. (2021). Unraveling the Dynamics of Immigrant Engineers’ Full-Utilization in Australia. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1109/tem.2021.3086456