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 …

international transferability of human capital skills results in immigrants entering into relatively low status occupations when …

language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and … determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. This is based on Exposure, Efficiency and Economic Incentives … (the three E's) for proficiency. It also focuses on the labor market consequences (earnings) of proficiency for immigrants …