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This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language proficiency and …
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augments a conventional human capital earnings function with information on occupations. It also estimates models of … occupational attainment. The results from both the earnings function and model of occupational attainment indicate that the limited …
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acquiring destination language proficiency, with an emphasis on labor market outcomes, and in particular earnings. Factors that …
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This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … official languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language …
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acquiring destination language proficiency, with an emphasis on labor market outcomes, and in particular earnings. Factors that …
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This paper analyzes the effect on earnings of the matching of English language skills to occupational requirements. It … levels of English skills in each of over 500 occupations in the US Census. Earnings data from the 2000 US Census for foreign …-born adult male workers are then examined in relation to these occupational English requirements. The analyses show that earnings …
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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 …
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This paper examines the determinants of occupational attainment and the impact of occupation on earnings. Results for … both the native born and foreign born are presented, and these provide insights as to the earnings penalties associated … earnings gains associated with years of schooling derives from inter-occupational mobility. When occupation is held constant …
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payoff to schooling in the growing literature on earnings determination in China. The payoffs to actual years of schooling …This paper examines the gender differential in the payoff to schooling in China. The analyses are conducted separately … education in rural China is much higher for females than for males. Associated with this, the wage penalty where workers are …
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payoff to schooling in the growing literature on earnings determination in China. The payoffs to actual years of schooling …This paper examines the gender differential in the payoff to schooling in China. The analyses are conducted separately … education in rural China is much higher for females than for males. Associated with this, the wage penalty where workers are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564691