International transferability of immigrants’ human capital

This paper uses the approach in the under/over education literature to analyze the extent of matching of educational level to occupational attainment among adult native born and foreign born men in the US, using the 2000 Census. Overeducation is found to be more common among recent labor market entr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chiswick, B., Miller, Paul
Format: Journal Article
Published: Pergamon 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47200