Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation. An analysis for Germany.

Autor/inn/en	Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas; Kramer, Anica
Institution	Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Titel	Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation. An analysis for Germany. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Transferierbarkeit von Humankapital und Assimilation von Einwanderern. Eine Analyse für Deutschland.
Quelle	Berlin (2014), 37 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	SOEPpapers on multidisciplinary panel data research at DIW Berlin. 671
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISSN	1864-6689
Schlagwörter	Bildungsertrag; Assimilation (Soz); Einkommensunterschied; Inländer; Humankapital; Lohndiskriminierung; Migrant; Herkunftsland
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 in particular labor market experience accumulated in the home countries of the immigrants receive significantly lower returns than human capital obtained in Germany. We further find evidence for heterogeneity in the returns to human capital of immigrants across countries. Finally, imperfect human capital transferability appears to be a major factor in explaining the wage differential between natives and immigrants. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2014/4