Sanromá, Esteve; Ramos, Raul; Simón, Hipólito - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The existing literature on immigrant assimilation has highlighted the imperfect portability of human capital acquired by immigrants in their country of origin (Chiswick, 1978; Friedberg, 2000). This would explain the low levels of assimilation upon arrival in the new country, as well as the wide...