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Acquiring Human Capital through the Generations by Migration

Our focus will be on the role of migration to the United States from a set of important European sending countries as a device for improving the human capital of the children and grandchildren of migrants as measured by their education. In this paper, we derive a new and conceptual more appropriate measure of the generational gains in schooling attributable to migration by taking into account the correct counter-factual – the generational education gains that would have taken place if these migrants had remained in their sending countries. We find that the two European countries where the descendants gained the most in terms of human capital are Italy and Poland.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 7782

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Education and Inequality
Education and Economic Development
Thema
human capital
education
migration

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Smith, James P.
Delaney, Liam
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2013

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Smith, James P.
  • Delaney, Liam
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2013

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