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 …

job titles, wage rates, and earnings for all employees. We examine initial job assignments, mobility between departments … departments and jobs within the firm as a Markov process. The estimated transition probabilities imply that expected seniority is …

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

, interestingly, not found to be relevant in the Australian context. Substantial gender earnings gaps (and glass ceilings) are … established, with these earnings gaps found to be predominantly related to women receiving lower returns to their observable …

This paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS data. It applies the …

links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure and wage profiles. The model assumes that it is more costly for …