substitution or complementarity between pre-existing' human capital and post-migration investments. The empirical analysis uses the …

United States. Importantly, we find a significantly negative interaction between pre-migration labor supply and source … immigrant women's US work hours is still strong even controlling for the immigrant's own pre-migration labor supply. The …

study return migration and the impact of skilled international migration on human capital stocks across countries. Return … migration is a common phenomenon, with 38% of skilled migrants returning to their origin countries within 10 years. Return … migration is significantly correlated with industry growth in the origin and destination countries, and is asymmetrically …

We use data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine the prevalence and determinants … interpret our results using a model in which investments in health capital are affected by both resource constraints and a human …

This paper contains a detailed treatment of the human capital model of the demand for health. Theoretical predictions … studies causality between years of formal schooling completed and good health is surveyed. The model views health as a durable … account for the gap between health as an output and medical care as one of many inputs into its production. In this framework …

We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and … estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a causal relationship between two of five measures of health and the wage in … which a reduction in health leads to an increase in the wage rate but find no evidence of a causal relationship running from …

This is the first paper to document the effect of health on the migration propensities of African Americans in the … literacy and health on the migration propensities of African Americans from 1870 to 1910. I find that literacy and health … shocks were strong predictors of migration and the stock of health was not. There were differential selection propensities …