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Abstract (English)

Recent developments in the literature on the Portability of Human Capital have established the notion of negative returns to local education in foreign labor markets, based on empirical studies reported from the USA, Israel and The Netherlands. Using data from the 2006 Canada Population Census, this article formally tests the hypothesis of average negative returns to postsecondary education outside Canada, for a subset of the population with fields of study related to targeted occupations by the Canadian government, and finds a similar pattern to the one reported in the literature for other countries. Average negative returns to foreign education in the Canadian labor market are also observed for a representative sample of individuals completing their postsecondary studies in the USA, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and France.

Abstract (French)

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