TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Akee, Randall K. Q.
AU  - Yuksel, Mutlu
        TI  - A Note on Measures of Human Capital for Immigrants: Examining the American Community Survey and New Immigrant Survey
        PY  - 2008/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3897
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3897
        AB  - In this paper we examine whether where one acquires their human capital matters in earnings regressions. We focus on a nationally-representative US data set and find that there is little difference between a measure of total years of education and measures for US and foreign-based years of education. There is a large difference, however, in where total experience is acquired: US-based experience commands a higher return to wages and is statistically highly significant. The measures used in this analysis must be inferred based on the year of migration to the US. Using an immigrant-specific data set, the New Immigrant Survey which contains explicit information on the human capital acquired in the US and abroad, we confirm these results.
        KW  - immigrants
KW  - schooling
KW  - rates of return
        ER  -