less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the …We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We … 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 …We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We … immigrants to Canada were employed in source country occupations that typically require high levels of cognitive skills, but rely …

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 … country occupations that required high levels of cognitive skills, but relied less intently on manual skills. Following …

growth of computerization in the workplace increasing the importance of non-routine cognitive skills. In a study entitled â … immigration are less likely (such as Asia) may be tied to the lack of improvements in immigrant wage outcomes despite the …

leading to a rising return to non-routine cognitive skills and a greater wage return to university education. Controlling for …

cognitive skills, but relied less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations …-border transferability of occupational human capital. We then test the empirical implications using the skill requirements of pre- and post-immigration …