The implications of human capital portability – including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and … occupation-specific skills, as a precursor we also investigate occupational mobility and observe convergence toward the …. However, surprisingly, neither matching nor language skills have any impact on the return to pre-immigration work experience …

We show that cyclical skill mismatch, defined as mismatch between the skills supplied by college graduates and skills … Norwegian data, we find a strong countercyclical pattern of skill mismatch among college graduates. Initial labor market … conditions have a declining but persistent effect on the probability of mismatch early in their careers. We provide a simple …

This paper reviews the literature on educational mismatch of immigrants in the labour market of destination countries … analysis of the causes and effects of immigrants' educational mismatch in the destination country. Relevant empirical …

We provide first evidence regarding the direct impact of educational mismatch on firm productivity. To do so, we rely …

type of skill mismatch between natives and immigrants. Next, Yun's decomposition method is used to identify the relative … are more likely to be skill mismatched than natives, being this difference much larger for vertical mismatch. In this case …' human capital acquired in home country are required to reduce differences in the incidence of skill mismatch and a better …

the substantial investment society puts into its post secondary institutions, and the role devoted to human capital in …