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 …

We analyze the joint determination of wage levels, wage growth and firm tenure. Our analysis is built on estimating a … reduced form for tenure, a structural wage level equation and a structural wage growth equation. We disentangle returns to a … latent type variable from estimates of general returns to tenure and wage gains from job changes. This type is related to …

first show that the median elapsed tenure declined for men between 1984 and 1999. Second, estimating proportional Cox hazard …

tenure and working in big firms receive severance payments. There is a huge variance in the size of the payments, which can … only partly be explained by tenure, the wage, firm size and the region. At least one quarter of dismissed employees is …

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