immigrants from non-English-speaking countries are characterized by positive assimilation. Earnings in the immediate post …There are two complementary models of immigrants’ economic and social adjustment – the positive assimilation model of …-arrival earnings profiles of immigrants in the US from non-English-speaking countries according to the linguistic distance of their …

This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation … international transferability of immigrants' human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons …

cohort effects, “negative” assimilation (a decline in earnings with duration) is found for immigrants in the US from the …Research on the economic or labor market assimilation of immigrants has to date focused on the degree of improvement in … transferability of skills. This paper addresses whether positive assimilation will be found if skills are very highly transferable …

This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment … country (ESDC). Among men in general, 'negative assimilation' is found for immigrants from the ESDC, and positive assimilation … for other origins. Among women, the pattern of assimilation in earnings and employment is more positive than among their …

reject the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis (IAH), which predicts that immigrants with shorter durations in 1983 should have …We create a longitudinal data set by matching immigrants in Israel’s censuses for 1983 and 1995. These panel data … experienced faster earnings growth between 1983 and 1995. By contrast, IAH is corroborated by the synthetic cohort methodology …

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 …

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 …

consequences for earnings, of computer use by both the native born and the foreign born. Focussing on the foreign born, the … use in Australia is much higher than in most of the countries that Australia’s immigrants come from, this evidence … suggests a high degree of favorable selection in migration. Study of the links between earnings, computer use and other human …

. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The … paper uses the Over-education/ Required education/Under-education specification of the earnings equation to explore the … is associated with a higher payoff to schooling among immigrants in the US labor market. This higher payoff is associated …

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