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