This paper is concerned with why immigrants appear to have consistently lower partial effects of schooling on earnings … Census of the United States. Based on the average (mean or mode) level of schooling in their occupation, the schooling of the …. Immigrants have a wider variance in schooling, with an especially large proportion undereducated given the average schooling …

Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … complementarity between language skills and both schooling and pre-immigration experience. That is, greater proficiency in the … official languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language …

The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born …. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The … measures of the quality of schooling undertaken abroad. The results suggest that a higher quality of schooling acquired abroad …

This paper examines the gender differential in the payoff to schooling in China. The analyses are conducted separately … the higher payoff to schooling for females than for males. Over educated females, however, are advantaged compared with … their male counterparts, though this has little effect on the differential in the payoff to schooling between males and …

This paper examines the gender differential in the payoff to schooling in China. The analyses are conducted separately … the higher payoff to schooling for females than for males. Over educated females, however, are advantaged compared with … their male counterparts, though this has little effect on the differential in the payoff to schooling between males and …

The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born …. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The … measures of the quality of schooling undertaken abroad. The results suggest that a higher quality of schooling acquired abroad …