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Trade and Human Capital Accumulation : Evidence from U.S. Immigrants

This study provides empirical evidence that trade increases on-the-job human capital accumulation by estimating the effect of home country openness on estimated returns to home country experience of U.S. immigrants. The positive effect of trade on...

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Main Author: Dömeland, Dörte
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
ABSOLUTE VALUE
ADVANCED COUNTRIES
AGRICULTURE
CAPITAL ACCUMULATION
CAPITAL INVESTMENT
CENSUSES
CITIZENS
COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN
COUNTRY CHARACTERISTICS
COUNTRY DATA
COUNTRY EXPERIENCE
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
CROSS-COUNTRY DATA
DATA SET
DEPENDENT VARIABLE
DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
DEVELOPED ECONOMIES
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DOWNWARD BIAS
ECONOMIC GROWTH
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
EMPIRICAL LITERATURE
EMPIRICAL STUDIES
EXPECTED
EXPLANATORY VARIABLE
EXPLANATORY VARIABLES
EXPORTS
EXTERNALITIES
FREE TRADE
GDP
GDP PER CAPITA
GOVERNMENT POLICIES
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT
HIGH CORRELATION
HUMAN CAPITAL
IMMIGRANT
IMMIGRANTS
IMMIGRATION
INCOME
JOB SEARCH
JOBS
LABOR MARKET
LABOR MARKET CONDITIONS
LABOR MARKET EXPERIENCE
LABOR MARKET INSTITUTIONS
LABOR MARKET REGULATION
LABOR MARKET REGULATIONS
LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
LEVEL OF EDUCATION
MIGRATION
NATURAL LOGARITHM
NEGATIVE SIGN
OLDER WORKERS
ON-THE-JOB TRAINING
OPEN ECONOMIES
POLICY RESEARCH
POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER
POSITIVE CORRELATION
POSITIVE EFFECT
PRODUCING GOODS
PRODUCT MARKET
PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES
PROGRESS
QUALITY OF EDUCATION
REAL GDP
REGIONAL DUMMIES
RELATIVE DEMAND
RELATIVE WAGES
RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS
RETURNS
RICHER COUNTRIES
SCHOOL QUALITY
SECONDARY SCHOOL
SKILL-BIASED TECHNOLOGIES
SKILLED LABOR
SPILLOVER
SPOUSE
TEACHER RATIO
TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY
TRAINING COSTS
UNSKILLED WORKERS
WAGE INEQUALITY
WAGE LEVEL
WAGE RATE
WAGES
WORKER
WORKERS
YOUNG WORKERS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/03/7405842/trade-human-capital-accumulation-evidence-immigrants
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7164

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