You Can't Take It with You? Immigrant Assimilation and the Portability of Human Capital

By Rachel M. Friedberg. Journal of Labor Economics, 2000

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Asian‐Americans’ Earnings Disadvantage Reexamined: The Role of Place of Education1 (2004, background): “1082 Labor economists have long argued that immigrants’ human capital attained abroad is not fully compatible with the host economy and thus is discounted in the labor market (Chiswick 1978; Duleep and Regets 1997; Stewart and Hyclak 1984; Friedberg 2000).”
Brain waste? Educated immigrants in the U.S. labor market (2005, background): “The results of the Green (1999) paper are not in line with other papers on Canada.”
Migration and trade: Theory with an application to the Eastern–Western European integration (2009, background): “The value of δH , the (percentage) human capital loss, is based on Friedberg (2000) who estimates wage losses from immigrants to Israel (many of them from Russia and Eastern Europe) of 25%, relative to similar natives.”
Overeducation and Ethnic Minorities in Britain (2002, neutral): “In addition, the most recent arrivals (those born outside the UK) may only possess overseas qualifications and these may not be as highly valued by employers as qualifications acquired in the host country (Friedberg, 2000).”
Education, credentials, and immigrant earnings (2008, neutral): “Recent contributions by Friedberg (2000), Schaafsma and Sweetman (2001) and Green and Worswick (2002) emphasize the importance of accounting for where immigrant human capital was acquired.”
Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany 1 (2012, background): “Similarly, research has shown that acquiring host-country credentials and labor market experience facilitates the economic integration of immigrants (e.g., Bratsberg and Ragan 2002; Friedberg 2000; Kanas and Van Tubergen 2009).”
Immigrant overeducation: Evidence from recent arrivals to Australia (2007, background): “Others may nominally be of the same standard but be of a lower content and/or quality (Friedberg 2000).”
Immigrant over-education: evidence from Denmark (2007, neutral): “…in technological requirements can mean that education and experience obtained in most other countries are not as productive in Denmark as education and experience acquired in Denmark (see also Friedberg 2000, Duleep and Regets 1997, and Green 1995 for studies about transferability of credentials).”
The Economic Returns of Immigrants’ Bonding and Bridging Social Capital: The Case of the Netherlands 1 (2010, background): “Furthermore, it is suggested that country specific human capital (that is, human capital acquired after arrival in the host society) has most impact on labour force status (Friedberg, 2000).”
The Effect of Literacy on Immigrant Earnings (2006, background): “This is important because Friedberg (2000) finds, using Israeli data, that negative”
Do Country-Specific Skills Lead to Improved Labor Market Positions? (2001, background): “To transfer skills between countries is difficult (Friedberg, 2000; Scott, 1999), and these difficulties seem to have grown over time, at least in the United States (Duleep & Regets, 1997).”
Immigrant entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the survey of business owners 2007 & 2012 (2020, positive): “This is often due to an under-recognition of education and experience gained in their home country (e.g., Batalova et al., 2008; Friedberg, 2000; Li, 2001), as it is more difficult for employers to assess foreign school quality or validate credentials compared to a domestic candidate.”
Immigrant Self-Employment (2009, background): “Furthermore, the knowledge and skills acquired on the job in the host country are presumably more transferable and more compatible with the requirements of the host-country labor market (Bratsberg & Ragan, 2002; Friedberg, 2000; Zeng & Xie, 2004).”
Labour Market Penalties of New Immigrants in New and Old Receiving West European Countries (2011, background): “…about the functioning of the host labour market, as well as language fluency, so that they may find it hard to translate and adapt the educational credentials accumulated in their countries of origin to labour demand of the receiving countries (Chiswick, 1978; Borjas, 1994; Friedberg, 2000).”