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Author-Name: Esteban Sanromá
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Author-X-Name-Last: Sanromá
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Author-Workplace-Name: IEB, University of Barcelona
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Author-Name: Raúl Ramos
Author-X-Name-First: Raúl 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ramos
Author-Workplace-Name: AQR-IREA, University of Barcelona
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Author-Name: Hipólito Simón
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Author-Workplace-Name: IEI, Universidad de Alicante & IEB 
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Title: How relevant is the origin of human capital for immigrant wages? Evidence from Spain
Abstract: The objective of this article is to analyse the role played by the different components of
	human capital in the wage determination of immigrants in the Spanish labour market.
	Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes, we find that human capital
	of immigrants acquired in Spain presents higher returns than human capital obtained in
	home countries, reflecting the limited international transferability of the latter. This result
	is reinforced by the strong heterogeneity observed in wage returns to different kinds of
	human capital across immigrants from different origins and, in particular, by the fact that
	immigrants with the higher returns to human capital acquired in their home countries are
	those coming from other developed countries and Latin America, the two regions more
	similar to Spain in terms of development and/or culture.
Classification-JEL: J15, J24, J31, J61
Keywords: immigration, wages, human capital, assimilation
Journal: Journal of Applied Economics
Pages: 149-172
Number: 1
Volume: 18
Year: 2015
Month: May
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