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 … languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language proficiency and …

manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the …We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China’s spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter …

employment and earnings in England. Clear associations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established …

considerable growth in earnings; others can hardly maintain their entry salaries. This article sheds light on the mechanisms … generating the observed heterogeneity in earnings progression by investigating the effects of on-the-job human capital … acquisition, explicit short-run incentives and career concern incentives on earnings progression. The model leads to predictions …

sector wage setting and trade unions, in determining earnings differences across different types of employment. To do this we … use the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study data from South Africa, which show extremely large average earnings … the earnings differentials within the private sector, including the union premium, but cannot explain the large premiums …

Many contributions suggest that earnings instability has increased during the 1980s and 1990s. This paper develops and … explaining earnings instability. To study the evolution over time of these different components we extract two estimation samples … contribute to the increase in earnings instability even if it is only their joint effect that generates what we observe in the …

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of …

measures - highly-educated immigrants from mainland China experienced significant employment and earnings gains during the 1990 … around the world. The U.S. government responded to the events in China by enacting multiple measures to protect Chinese … examine employment and earnings among Chinese immigrants who were likely beneficiaries of the U.S. government's actions …

This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of Soviet Jewish immigrants to … English proficiency and earnings than other immigrants, other variables being the same. However, they have a steeper … improvement in both proficiency and earnings with duration in the United States and the differences from the other European …