TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Goldmann, Gustave
AU  - Sweetman, Arthur
AU  - Warman, Casey
        TI  - The Portability of New Immigrants' Human Capital: Language, Education and Occupational Matching
        PY  - 2011/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5851
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5851
        AB  - The implications of human capital portability – including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and post-immigration occupational matching – for earnings are explored for new immigrants to Canada. Given the importance of occupation-specific skills, as a precursor we also investigate occupational mobility and observe convergence toward the occupational skill distribution of the domestic population, although four years after landing immigrants remain less likely have a high skilled job. Immigrants who are able to match their source and host country occupations obtain higher earnings. However, surprisingly, neither matching nor language skills have any impact on the return to pre-immigration work experience, which is observed to be statistically significantly negative. Crucially, English language skills are found to have an appreciable direct impact on earnings, and to mediate the return to pre-immigration education but not labour market experience.
        KW  - language
KW  - immigration
KW  - human capital portability
KW  - occupation
KW  - education
        ER  -