TY  - BOOK
AU  - Domeland,Dorte
AU  - Domeland,Dorte
TI  - Trade and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence From U.S. Immigrants 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Capital Accumulation
KW  - Comparative Advantage
KW  - Cost
KW  - Country Strategy and Performance
KW  - Debt Markets
KW  - Demand
KW  - Economic Growth
KW  - Economic Theory and Research
KW  - Economics
KW  - Education
KW  - Educational Sciences
KW  - Emerging Markets
KW  - Finance and Financial Sector Development
KW  - Financial Literacy
KW  - Free Trade
KW  - GDP
KW  - Gross Domestic Product
KW  - Health, Nutrition and Population
KW  - Home Country
KW  - Human Capital
KW  - International Trade
KW  - Investment
KW  - Labor
KW  - Labor Markets
KW  - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
KW  - Market
KW  - Political Economy
KW  - Population Policies
KW  - Poverty Reduction
KW  - Private Sector Development
KW  - Pro-Poor Growth
KW  - Production
KW  - Productivity
KW  - Resources
KW  - Social Protections and Labor
KW  - Supply
N2  - This study provides empirical evidence that trade increases on-the-job human capital accumulation by estimating the effect of home country openness on estimated returns to home country experience of U.S. immigrants. The positive effect of trade on on-the-job human capital accumulation remains significant when controlling for GDP, educational attainment, and institutional quality. It is not the result of self-selection, heterogeneity in returns to experience, English-speaking origin, or cultural background. The effect persists when restricting the sample to non-OECD countries, thereby resolving the theoretical ambiguity of whether trade increases or decreases learning-by-doing. The role of trade in generating economic growth is therefore likely to be more important than generally considered
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-4144
ER  -