role to play in matching immigrants to jobs that use their language skills most effectively …

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

, there is a large increase in the effect on earnings of pre-immigration labor market experience for the foreign born, but …

We study the effect of minimum wage increases on employment in automatable jobs – jobs in which employers may find it … share of automatable employment held by low-skilled workers, and increases the likelihood that low-skilled workers in … ignored in the minimum wage literature are in fact quite vulnerable to employment changes and job loss because of automation …

We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages - in the United States and other … negative employment effects of minimum wages. In addition, among the papers we view as providing the most credible evidence … positive employment effects of minimum wages, especially from those studies that focus on the broader groups (rather than a …

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 …

immigrants' human capital, and under-education to favourable selection in immigration. The results show that immigrants have a …This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using … effects of under-education, or selection in immigration, are, however, twice as large as the effects of over-education, or …