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Life-cycle human capital accumulation across countries: lessons from US immigrants

Lagakos, David, Moll, Benjamin ORCID: 0009-0003-6067-359X, Porzio, Tommaso, Qian, Nancy and Schoellman, Todd (2018) Life-cycle human capital accumulation across countries: lessons from US immigrants. Journal of Human Capital, 12 (2). 305 - 342. ISSN 1932-8575

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Identification Number: 10.1086/697245

Abstract

This paper assesses cross-country variation in life-cycle human capital accumulation, using new evidence from US immigrants. The returns to experience accumulated in an immigrant’s birth country before migrating are positively correlated with birth-country GDP per capita. To understand this fact, we build a model of life-cycle human capital accumulation that features three potential theories: differential human capital accumulation, differential selection, and differential skill loss.We use new data on the characteristics of immigrants and nonmigrants from a large set of countries to distinguish between these theories. The most likely theory is that immigrants from poor countries accumulate less human capital in their birth countries before migrating. Our findings imply that life-cycle human capital stocks are much larger in rich countries.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jhc/current
Additional Information: © 2018 The University of Chicago
Divisions: Economics
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
Date Deposited: 06 Nov 2019 16:00
Last Modified: 01 Oct 2024 03:47
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/102403

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