The skill transferability of high-skilled US immigrants

M. Ryan Haley and Sarinda Taengnoi

Applied Economics Letters, 2011, vol. 18, issue 7, 633-636

Abstract: Using the 2000 US Census data, we explored the effect of international transferability of skills on the earnings of high-skilled US immigrants. We confirmed that education and labour market experience received by immigrants from Japan and English-speaking developed countries before migrating have the greatest transferability; immigrants from non-English-speaking and Less Developed Countries (LDCs) make a greater investment in US-specific skills after arrival and earn a salary commensurate with the acquired skill level. Nevertheless, high-skilled workers from English-speaking developed countries still receive higher earnings, other things equal. We explore factors that influence this earnings differential.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2010.491438

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