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

immigrants to be favorably selected, although this is less intense under the later criteria. The overall favorable selectivity of … immigrants, therefore, depends on the favorable selectivity of the supply of immigrants and the criteria used to ration …

the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for …-education is widespread in the high-skilled US labor market, both for immigrants and the native born. The extent of over …-education declines with duration in the US as high-skilled immigrants obtain jobs commensurate with their educational level. Years of …

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 …

. 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 … quality on the immigrant selection process, rather than the quality of immigrants' schooling per se, that is the major driver …

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 …

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 …

language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and … determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. This is based on Exposure, Efficiency and Economic Incentives … (the three E's) for proficiency. It also focuses on the labor market consequences (earnings) of proficiency for immigrants …