important channel through which language skills affect wages of child migrants. Although the returns of adult migrants do not …

Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship … aims at language as a criterion for legal immigration. Canada, in effect, does not base entry or citizenship on knowledge … of either of its official languages. Acquisition of a second language in Canada is voluntary and largely dependent on …

This paper investigates the economic performance of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) countries in Canada … Union allows an exogenous supply change in the number and type of FSU immigrants potentially destined to enter Canada. For …

We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories … average immigrant men in Canada do not experience any relative growth in these three outcomes compared to men born in Canada …

Using longitudinal data for Canada, we analyze the incidence and wage returns to employer supported course enrollment … wages. The estimated average treatment effects on the treated range from 5.5 to 7.2 percent for men and 7.1 to 9.0 for women …

wages by examining the case of Canada. Previous studies from the US, using individual level data, have revealed that annual …