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 …

criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …

country. We also consider the earnings implications of these immigrant networks for recent arrivals. The empirical evidence … positive effect on their hourly wage and their level of weekly earnings. …

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 …

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 … mainly driven by intra-occupational earnings progression. Moreover, and contrary to what is observed for natives, we detect …

(the three E's) for proficiency. It also focuses on the labor market consequences (earnings) of proficiency for immigrants …

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 …