Arbeitspapier
Does Background Matter? The Transmission of Human Capital from a Planned to a Market Economy
We analyze the early U.S. economic achievement of former Soviet citizens entering the United States during the period 1979 through 1985. Using the Soviet Interview project (SIP) data, we identify components of human capital acquired in the former Soviet Union (FSU), relating these to labor force participation and income outcomes in the United States. FSU education, experience and industry variables have important, variable and differing impacts upon both participation and income, and that such outcomes differ for males and females. FSU immigrants income is below U.S. income. Differing rates of return to characteristics, not the endowments themselves, are responsible for observed differentials.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 1997-08
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- Thema
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Comparative systems
Human capital
Immigration
Wage differentials
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Gang, Ira N.
Stuart, Robert C.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Rutgers University, Department of Economics
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New Brunswick, NJ
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1999
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Gang, Ira N.
- Stuart, Robert C.
- Rutgers University, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 1999