, overall, education and labor market experience accumulated in the home countries of the immigrants receive significantly lower … immigrants across origin countries. Finally, imperfect human capital transferability appears to be a major factor in explaining … the wage differential between natives and immigrants …

determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007 …, the paper examines returns to human capital of immigrants, distinguishing between human capital accumulated in their home … transferability of the latter. The only exception occurs in the case of immigrants from developed countries and immigrants who have …

penalty. In addition, few studies have considered overeducation among immigrants. This paper uses panel data analyses to … investigate the match between education and occupation and resulting earnings effects for immigrants from English Speaking, and …) that are crucial in overeducation analysis. First, we find that immigrants have significantly higher incidence rates of …

. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The … is associated with a higher payoff to schooling among immigrants in the US labor market. This higher payoff is associated … of the lower payoff to schooling among immigrants in the US …

This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using … immigrants' human capital, and under-education to favourable selection in immigration. The results show that immigrants have a …