Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
(imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We … show that returns to human capital are considerably lower for immigrants as compared to natives and that there is no return … to pre-immigration work experience, suggesting imperfect transferability of human capital. We also explored the role of …