immigrants from non-English-speaking countries are characterized by positive assimilation. Earnings in the immediate post …There are two complementary models of immigrants' economic and social adjustment - the positive assimilation model of …-arrival earnings profiles of immigrants in the US from non-English-speaking countries according to the linguistic distance of their …

earnings of other immigrants. This pattern is seen in the most recent data, the American Community Survey, 2005 to 2009, which …Compared to other immigrants to the United States, recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have achieved … high levels of English language proficiency and earnings. They experience disadvantages in both dimensions at arrival, but …

of English proficiency and earnings than other immigrants, other variables being the same. However, they have a steeper … schooling on earnings than other immigrants, even other European immigrants. The lower initial English proficiency and earnings … low English proficiency and earnings of those recently arrived in the 2000 Census data reflects a refugee assimilation …

This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation …-than-perfect international transferability of immigrants' human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons …

between changes in the share of immigrants by sub-labour markets (categorized by skill types and geographic areas) and changes … accounting for biases due to native mobility, endogenous location of immigrants and labour demand shifts, the estimated effects …

. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The … paper uses the Over-education/ Required education/Under-education specification of the earnings equation to explore the … is associated with a higher payoff to schooling among immigrants in the US labor market. This higher payoff is associated …

The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied … of overeducation among non-Western immigrants. We also analyze whether there is state-dependence in overeducation and … extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by investigating whether this is a more severe problem among immigrants …

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the … human capital, for immigrants and natives, in explaining inter-occupational and intra-occupational earnings progression … show that returns to human capital are considerably lower for immigrants as compared to natives and that there is no return …

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 … lower payoff to schooling because of the different effects under-education and over-education have on their earnings. The …

' origin, the literature has traditionally treated male and female immigrants as a homogenous group when examining the impact …