New Evidence on International Transferability of Human Capital

This article sheds new light on the portability of human capital. We estimate the returns to source country experiences, viz., general, occupation-specific, and task-specific experiences, using data from the New Immigrant Survey (NIS), conducted in 2003. While the “returns to general experience” has...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gibbons Eric M., Mukhopadhyay Sankar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2020-06-01
Series:IZA Journal of Development and Migration
Subjects:
j3
j61
j62
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/izajodm-2020-0009