Human capital and migration
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https://doi.org/10.35319/lajed.20067241Keywords:
Migration, LaborAbstract
The migratory flows can be seen as an investment process among the individuals and their families are willing to sacrifice the conditions in where that they live betting for better options in another geographical environment. The flows that were studied in this paper belong to those movements of people who are searching for new job oppor- tunities. The paper findings points toward an important part of the immigrants are not able to reach their expectations once they are inserted in the destination market. Addi- tionally it was observed that some social groups in Bolivia do not respond appropriately to the investment in their children's human capital.
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