-than-perfect international transferability of immigrants' human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons …

destination language skills, and Economic incentives for acquiring this proficiency,(3) the consequences for immigrants of …

There are two complementary models of immigrants' economic and social adjustment - the positive assimilation model of … applicable for immigrants from countries that are very similar in terms of the transferability of skills, culture, and labor …-arrival earnings profiles of immigrants in the US from non-English-speaking countries according to the linguistic distance of their …

. 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 … of the lower payoff to schooling among immigrants in the US …

Compared to other immigrants to the United States, recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have achieved … earnings of other immigrants. This pattern is seen in the most recent data, the American Community Survey, 2005 to 2009, which … is that the Russian Jewish immigrants from the late 19th and early 20th centuries (1881 to 1920's) also experienced high …

This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using … immigrants' human capital, and under-education to favourable selection in immigration. The results show that immigrants have a …

the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for …-education is widespread in the high-skilled US labor market, both for immigrants and the native born. The extent of over …-education declines with duration in the US as high-skilled immigrants obtain jobs commensurate with their educational level. Years of …

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 …