Do Employers Value Return Migrants? An Experiment on the Returns to Foreign Work Experience

Paolo Abarcar ()

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Abstract: What is the value of return migrants and the foreign experience they bring to domestic employers? This paper describes an experiment conducted in the Philippines, in which over 8,000 fictitious resumes were randomly assigned varying lengths of foreign work experience and were sent to online job ads.

Keywords: return migration; foreign work experience; international migrants; resume-audit study; employers; location-specific human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46
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