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 …

The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show … earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the … inverse relationship between initial earnings and earnings growth rates: the good fit between data and theory suggests that …

criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …

This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings … study the earnings in five independent professional practices. Based on the net present value technique, Becker (1964 … also for other demographic groups. The first regression-based approach is the development of the schooling-earnings …

Using historical, longitudinal data on individuals, we track the earnings of immigrant and U.S.-born women. Following … individuals, instead of synthetic cohorts, avoids biases in earnings-growth estimates caused by compositional changes in the … 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, immigrant women, as previously found for immigrant men, have high earnings growth. …