This paper analyzes the effect on earnings of the matching of English language skills to occupational requirements. It … expected levels of English skills in each of over 500 occupations in the US Census. Earnings data from the 2000 US Census for … that earnings are related to correct matching of an individual’s language skills and that of his occupation. Moreover, the …

earnings of other immigrants. This pattern is seen in the most recent data, the American Community Survey, 2005 to 2009, which … of schooling and English proficiency. Moreover, they appear to secure greater earnings payoffs in the US labor market …Compared to other immigrants to the United States, recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have achieved …

job, has a large effect on earnings among the native born, and an even larger effect among the foreign born. This effect …, are held constant. Earnings increase with the respondent’s own proficiency in English, with the English proficiency …

the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for … schooling that are above that which is usual for a worker's occupation are associated with very low increases in earnings … schooling serves as a pathway to occupational attainment, earnings appear to be more closely linked to a worker's occupation …

. 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 …

This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using … lower payoff to schooling because of the different effects under-education and over-education have on their earnings. The … immigrants' human capital, and under-education to favourable selection in immigration. The results show that immigrants have a …

This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation …, by level of skill, and by occupation. While point estimates differ, particularly when earnings equations are estimated …, the answers provided to the typical research questions in the ORU literature on the utilization of schooling are …

This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation … payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller (2008). This decomposition links overeducation to the less-than- perfect … international transferability of immigrants' human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons …

This paper is concerned with why immigrants appear to have consistently lower partial effects of schooling on earnings … a small positive effect of overeducation. About two-thirds of the smaller effect of schooling on earnings for immigrants …. Immigrants have a wider variance in schooling, with an especially large proportion undereducated given the average schooling …

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … official languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language …