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Do Employers Value Return Migrants? An Experiment on the Returns to Foreign Work Experience

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  • Paolo Abarcar

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What is the value of return migrants and the foreign experience they bring to domestic employers? This paper describes an experiment conducted in the Philippines, in which over 8,000 fictitious resumes were randomly assigned varying lengths of foreign work experience and were sent to online job ads.

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  • Paolo Abarcar, "undated". "Do Employers Value Return Migrants? An Experiment on the Returns to Foreign Work Experience," Mathematica Policy Research Reports f8bc567166f04bbeb7f0c831b, Mathematica Policy Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:mpr:mprres:f8bc567166f04bbeb7f0c831bf54e6d5
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    1. Emily A. Beam & Joshua Hyman & Caroline Theoharides, 2020. "The Relative Returns to Education, Experience, and Attractiveness for Young Workers," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 68(2), pages 391-428.
    2. Mingyu Chen, 2019. "The Value of U.S. College Education in Global Labor Markets: Experimental Evidence from China," Working Papers 627, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section..

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    return migration; foreign work experience; international migrants; resume-audit study; employers; location-specific human capital;
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