language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design … earnings of immigrants. … missionary activity of both Protestants and Catholics on an immigrant’s English language proficiency using a linear probability …

We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm’s bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …

men's and women's hourly earnings and employment rate. A similar finding was reported earlier for a few Western European … countries. However, our study is the first one to estimate the impact of the compulsory schooling extended in a centrally … reform had a negative impact on the hourly earnings of individuals with primary education. …

an unconditional difference of 3.3 percentage points. We find empirical support for differing earnings opportunities as a … partial explanation for this self-employment gap. High wages in STEM paid-employment combined with reduced earnings in self …

This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their … time that immigrants spend in the US and over generations. Information friction may be an explanation. …

As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working ….5% for first- and second-generation immigrants, respectively. However, controlling for a wide range of observables (e.g. age … first-generation immigrants born in developing countries still experience a sizeable adjusted wage gap (2.7%), there is no …

of English skills on labour market status and, conditional on being a wage earner, on monthly earnings and occupational … level of skills in English and earnings, which is only modestly reduced when job-related variables and (especially … English) seems to stimulate labour market participation and earnings capacity, but does not substantially affect the …

We examine the heterogeneous impacts of foreign language use at work on earnings of both native-born workers and … work is found to have an unambiguously positive impact on their earnings (2% on average). Second, for foreign-born workers … language knowledge of low-educated migrants causes these results, as immigrants for whom themother tongue is similar to the …