International transferability of immigrants’ human capital

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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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Main Authors:	Chiswick, B., Miller, Paul
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Pergamon 2009
Subjects:	Education Skill transferability Immigrants Occupational attainment
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47200

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