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

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 …

and finance. The mid-19th century German Jewish immigrants settled throughout the country; often beginning as itinerant …-speaking Eastern European and Russian Jewish immigrants, who arrived primarily in the four decades starting in 1881, are the ancestors …

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 …

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 …

earnings among adult male Jewish immigrants in Israel, using the 1972 Census of Israel. Among other findings, Hebrew speaking … earn 2 percent less than Hebrew speaking immigrants who speak neither of these languages. Comparisons are made to a study … of immigrants in the 1983 Census of Israel, and immigrants in other countries. Estimates of the rate of return to the …

This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of Soviet Jewish immigrants to … the 1980 and 1990 Censuses. A consistent finding is that recently arrived Soviet Jewish immigrants have lower levels of … English proficiency and earnings than other immigrants, other variables being the same. However, they have a steeper …

Research on the economic or labor market assimilation of immigrants has to date focused on the degree of improvement in …, and examines the empirical relevance of the hypothesis using data on immigrants from the English-speaking developed … cohort effects, negative assimilation (a decline in earnings with duration) is found for immigrants in the US from the …

immigrants to the United States from 1965 to 2000, using the 2000 Census of Population. Comparisons are made to similar analyses … using the 1980 and 1990 Censuses. A consistent finding is that recently arrived Soviet Jewish immigrants have lower levels … of English proficiency and earnings than other immigrants, other variables being the same. However, they have a steeper …