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 …

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

the dynamics of consumption, hours, and earnings of two earners in the presence of correlated wage shocks, non …, earnings, assets and consumption. We focus on the importance of family labour supply as an insurance mechanism to wage shocks …

country. We also consider the earnings implications of these immigrant networks for recent arrivals. The empirical evidence … positive effect on their hourly wage and their level of weekly earnings. …

augments a conventional human capital earnings function with information on occupations. It also estimates models of … occupational attainment. The results from both the earnings function and model of occupational attainment indicate that the limited …

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the … human capital, for immigrants and natives, in explaining inter-occupational and intra-occupational earnings progression … mainly driven by intra-occupational earnings progression. Moreover, and contrary to what is observed for natives, we detect …

(the three E's) for proficiency. It also focuses on the labor market consequences (earnings) of proficiency for immigrants …