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This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and in particular labor market...
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-village-specific variables on migrants' location choice. …
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-village-specific variables on migrants' location choice. …
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Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant?s country in the host region. Using …-village-specific variables on migrants? location choice. …
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on the migrant?s decision of where to migrate. Moreover, the significance and size of the effects vary according to the …
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the wage differential between natives and immigrants. -- Human capital ; rate of return ; immigration ; assimilation …
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the wage differential between natives and immigrants. -- Human capital ; rate of return ; immigration ; assimilation …
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on the migrant?s decision of where to migrate. Moreover, the significance and size of the effects vary according to the … ; immigration ; location choice …
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language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …
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