; occupations ; earnings ; rates of return ; selectivity ; skill transferability ; ORU analysis …. The sensitivity of the results of the decomposition to several measurement issues is assessed. -- Immigrants ; schooling …This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation …

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 …

independent of the measure of the usual or reference level of education used in the analyses. -- Immigrants ; skill ; schooling … ; occupations ; earnings ; rates of return …This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation …

Canada than in the US, where it predominates among the least educated. -- Immigrants ; skill ; schooling ; earnings ; rates …This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using … lower payoff to schooling because of the different effects under-education and over-education have on their earnings. The …

The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied … of overeducation among non-Western immigrants. We also analyze whether there is state-dependence in overeducation and … extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by investigating whether this is a more severe problem among immigrants …

This paper is concerned with why immigrants appear to have consistently lower partial effects of schooling on earnings … a small positive effect of overeducation. About two-thirds of the smaller effect of schooling on earnings for immigrants … ; occupations ; earnings ; rates of return ; selectivity …

of the lower payoff to schooling among immigrants in the US. -- immigrants ; schooling ; school quality ; earnings …. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The … is associated with a higher payoff to schooling among immigrants in the US labor market. This higher payoff is associated …

than to the individual's level of schooling. -- Immigrants ; skill ; schooling ; occupations ; earnings ; rates of return … the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for … schooling that are above that which is usual for a worker's occupation are associated with very low increases in earnings …

This paper analyzes the impact of missionary activity on English language proficiency and labor market earnings of all … immigrants to the United States by using the pooled files of the American Community Survey (2005-09). We consider the colonial … immigrants from countries with a high concentration of Protestant missionaries tend to exhibit higher levels of English …

destination language skills, and Economic incentives for acquiring this proficiency, (3) the consequences for immigrants of … acquiring destination language proficiency, with an emphasis on labor market outcomes, and in particular earnings. Factors that …