GEOG 2210 Lecture Notes - Human Capital
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The adaptation of immigrants immigrants arrive in the host country w/o knowledge or skills necessary to compete well with native-born workers, therefore tehy have comparatively lower earnings than indigenous workers. Over time, however, because immigrants have lower skill levels and language levels, they have more of an incentive to invest in education. Which allows them to learn language skills etc. Profile of immigrant earners will be steeper than natives. Catching up reflects assimilation this is called the human capital theory there are economic and non-economic migrants. Depending on how permanent the immigrant views his or her move, he or she will invest more in their education (if they feel that they are to be more permanently grounded in a new. Gendered differences: women are less likely to invest in human capital because they spend a smaller fraction of their lives working.
