The international transferability of immigrants’ human capital

By Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• The Employment Experience of Refugees in the Netherlands (2010, unknown): “…market experience and language proficiency in destination countries have been found to positively affect the economic integration of immigrants (Chiswick & Miller, 2009; Van Tubergen, 2006) and refugees in classical immigrant receiving countries (Mamgain & Collins, 2003; Potocky & McDonald,…”
• Isolating the Network Effect of Immigrants on Trade (2014, unknown): “3 from poor skill transferability and skill downgrading (Chiswick and Miller, 2009), their occupation in the destination country, rather than their schooling, is a better measure of their productive contribution and it may contain more information about their role in enhancing trade.”
• Skilled migrants' career capital as a source of competitive advantage: implications for strategic HRM (2015, background): “Increased competency in English is reported to lead to increased job ‘matching’, understood as closer matching between the immigrants’ professional qualifications and experience and their employment in the host country (Chiswick & Miller, 2009a).”
• Human Capital and Development Accounting: New Evidence from Wage Gains at Migration (2018, result): “Our approach and findings parallel those of Chiswick et al. (2005) and especially Akresh (2008), who also uses the NIS. Chiswick and Miller (2009) employs an alternative strategy of comparing immigrants’ education to that of natives in the same occupation, using “overeducation” as a proxy for imperf”