immigrants to Canada were employed in source country occupations that typically require high levels of cognitive skills, but rely … less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the … and manual skills, these discrepancies are larger among immigrants with limited language fluency. …

This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two …, we find that wages are lower for job changers for the group of training participants, so wages decrease when trained …

boom and bust. The gradient with wages, however, is much more marked during the bust and remains significantly so even …

demand for advanced cognitive skills ("skill downgrading"). Analyses of wage and employment data from the U.S. Current …