Ira Gang
Rutgers University
Department of Economics
E-mail: gang@economics.rutgers.edu
Item Number: [J41]
Title: Does Background Matter? The Transmission of Human Capital
Across Economic Systems
Abstract: 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.
Reference: Robert C. Stuart and Ira N. Gang, Does Background
Matter? The Transmission of Human Capital Across Economic Systems,
International Migration Review, 34 (2000) 511-537
Co-Author Information:
Robert C. Stuart
Rutgers University
E-Mail: stuart@economics.rutgers.edu
Download: Email
Requesting Pdf version of paper.