This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment … probability, unemployment probability, and hours worked per week). Using the 2006 Australian Census of Population and Housing the … country (ESDC). Among men in general, 'negative assimilation' is found for immigrants from the ESDC, and positive assimilation …

immigrants to be favorably selected, although this is less intense under the later criteria. The overall favorable selectivity of … immigrants, therefore, depends on the favorable selectivity of the supply of immigrants and the criteria used to ration …

This paper is concerned with why immigrants appear to have consistently lower partial effects of schooling on earnings …. Immigrants have a wider variance in schooling, with an especially large proportion undereducated given the average schooling … level in their occupation. Immigrants are shown to receive approximately the same rate of return to the "required …

international transferability of immigrants' human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons …

the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for …-education is widespread in the high-skilled US labor market, both for immigrants and the native born. The extent of over …-education declines with duration in the US as high-skilled immigrants obtain jobs commensurate with their educational level. Years of …

earnings among adult male Jewish immigrants in Israel, using the 1972 Census of Israel. Among other findings, Hebrew speaking … earn 2 percent less than Hebrew speaking immigrants who speak neither of these languages. Comparisons are made to a study … of immigrants in the 1983 Census of Israel, and immigrants in other countries. Estimates of the rate of return to the …

Research on the economic or labor market assimilation of immigrants has to date focused on the degree of improvement in … model, and examines the empirical relevance of the hypothesis using data on immigrants from the English-speaking developed … cohort effects, “negative” assimilation (a decline in earnings with duration) is found for immigrants in the US from the …

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 …

use in Australia is much higher than in most of the countries that Australia’s immigrants come from, this evidence …

. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The … is associated with a higher payoff to schooling among immigrants in the US labor market. This higher payoff is associated … quality on the immigrant selection process, rather than the quality of immigrants’ schooling per se, that is the major driver …