Imai, Susumu; Stacey, Derek; Warman, Casey - Economics Discipline Group, Business School - 2014
We examine the ability of male immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration … skill requirements of pre- and post-immigration occupations. We find that male immigrants to Canada were employed in source … immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the opposite. These discrepancies are both larger and more …