... participants who permanently switched to a nursing profession, leading to a waste of their talents and to downward career mobility. Results contrast with the literatures on international careers that describe international mobility as being beneficial for skilled migrants. Instead, human capital alone...

.... Originality/value While literature on international careers frequently describe international mobility as being beneficial for skilled migrants, the findings yield limited support for this assumption. Instead, human capital was insufficient in explaining the career outcome of migrant physicians in France...