earnings of other immigrants. This pattern is seen in the most recent data, the American Community Survey, 2005 to 2009, which … of schooling and English proficiency. Moreover, they appear to secure greater earnings payoffs in the US labor market …Compared to other immigrants to the United States, recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have achieved …

-generation immigrants outperform natives on socially-beneficial personality traits. While first-generation migrants suffer language …-ability penalties, their off-spring overcome these penalties and outperform natives in cognitive ability. Immigrants do not outperform …

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 …

This paper contributes to the analysis of the integration of immigrants in the Canadian labour market by focusing in … with information of the occupational skills embodied in the jobs immigrants hold. This allows us to assess the role that … language plays in the labour market performance of immigrants and to better study their career progression relative to the …

monolingual English speakers, but the earnings differential varies sharply by the language spoken. Those who speak Native American … languages, Pennsylvania Dutch and Yiddish have very low earnings, likely because they live in isolated geographic or cultural … same, have statistically significant seven percent lower earnings …

. Married men, veterans and those living in metropolitan areas are also more likely to be overeducated. Among immigrants … overeducated and a greater probability of being undereducated. This is consistent with immigrants being favorably selected for …

job, has a large effect on earnings among the native born, and an even larger effect among the foreign born. This effect …, are held constant. Earnings increase with the respondent's own proficiency in English, with the English proficiency …

This paper analyzes the effect on earnings of the matching of English language skills to occupational requirements. It … expected levels of English skills in each of over 500 occupations in the US Census. Earnings data from the 2000 US Census for … that earnings are related to correct matching of an individual's language skills and that of his occupation. Moreover, the …

schooling and labor market experience are shown to increase at higher deciles. The native-immigrant earnings gap varies by …This paper applies the quantile regression methodology to the study of the determinants of the distribution of earnings … among the native born and immigrants in the United States and Australia. The analysis for immigrants is performed separately …

This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household … immigrants and natives. Individual rates of wage convergence are found to be higher for immigrants who fled warfare zones, belong … to established ethnic networks, and acquired more years of pre-migration schooling. Using a doubly robust treatment …