Temporary Migration, Human Capital, and Language Fluency of Migrants

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Temporary Migration, Human Capital, and Language Fluency of Migrants

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Dustmann, Christian

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Christian Dustmann

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This paper investigates human capital investment of immigrants whose duration in the host country is limited, either by contract or by their own choice. The first part of the paper develops a model which distinguishes between temporary migrations where the return time is exogenous or optimally chosen. The analysis has a number of interesting implications for empirical work, some of which are explored in the second part of the paper. The analysis focuses on language capital and tests the hypothesis that country specific human capital investments are sensitive to the duration in the host country's labor market. The results show that the acquisition of language capital is sensitive to the intended duration in the host country. Copyright 1999 by The editors of the Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

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Article provided by Blackwell Publishing in its journal Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

Volume (Year): 101 (1999)
Issue (Month): 2 (June)
Pages: 297-314
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- Christian Dustmann, 1996. "Temporary Migration, Human capital and Language Fluency of Migrants," Discussion Papers 96-21 ISSN 1350-6722, University College London, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
- Dustmann, Christian, 1996. "Temporary Migration, Human Capital, and Language Fluency of Migrants," CEPR Discussion Papers 1376, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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