The implications of human capital portability - including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and …. However, surprisingly, neither matching nor language skills have any impact on the return to pre-immigration work experience … appreciable direct impact on earnings, and to mediate the return to pre-immigration education but not labour market experience. …

The implications of human capital portability – including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and …. However, surprisingly, neither matching nor language skills have any impact on the return to pre-immigration work experience … appreciable direct impact on earnings, and to mediate the return to pre-immigration education but not labour market experience. …

The implications of human capital portability -- including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and …. However, surprisingly, neither matching nor language skills have any impact on the return to pre-immigration work experience … appreciable direct impact on earnings, and to mediate the return to pre-immigration education but not labour market experience. …

We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We … first augment a model of occupational choice to study the implications of language proficiency on the cross … requirements from the O*NET and a unique dataset that includes both the last source country occupation and the first four years of …

formalize the occupation choice decision. As individuals gain information on their own productivity, they may change occupations … and locations. Occupation choice is introduced as an endogenous determinant of migration in recursive bivariate probit … models for individuals who make good and bad matches in an occupation. We extend our analysis to feature an additional …