Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: An Analysis for Germany

Anica Kramer, Leilanie Basilio and Thomas Bauer ()

VfS Annual Conference 2013 (Duesseldorf): Competition Policy and Regulation in a Global Economic Order from Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association

Abstract: This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience accumulated in the home countries of the immigrants receive signi cantly lower returns than human capital obtained in Germany. We further nd evidence for heterogeneity in the returns to human capital of immigrants across origin countries. Finally, imperfect human capital transferability appears to be a major factor in explaining the wage di erential between natives and immigrants.

JEL-codes: J24 J31 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Journal Article: Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: An Analysis for Germany (2017)
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Working Paper: Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: An Analysis for Germany (2010)
Working Paper: Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation – An Analysis for Germany (2010)
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