Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kramer, Anica - 2014
This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human … capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that … signifiantly lower returns than human capital obtained in Germany. We further find evidence for heterogeneity in the returns to …