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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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This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of Soviet Jewish immigrants to … English proficiency and earnings than other immigrants, other variables being the same. However, they have a steeper … improvement in both proficiency and earnings with duration in the United States and the differences from the other European …
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This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of adult male Soviet Jewish … of English proficiency and earnings than other immigrants, other variables being the same. However, they have a steeper … improvement in both proficiency and earnings with duration in the United States and the differences from the other European …
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This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation …
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earnings among adult male Jewish immigrants in Israel, using the 1972 Census of Israel. Among other findings, Hebrew speaking … family structure also matter. Earnings are found to increase with level of schooling, duration in Israel, pre …
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cohort effects, negative assimilation (a decline in earnings with duration) is found for immigrants in the US from the …
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and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial … of the 20th century their descendants achieved very impressive improvements in earnings and occupational status … differences by religion. Other determinants of earnings the same, including schooling, American Jewish men earned about 16 percent …
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-arrival earnings profiles of immigrants in the US from non-English-speaking countries according to the linguistic distance of their … immigrants from non-English-speaking countries are characterized by positive assimilation. Earnings in the immediate post …-arrival period are lowest for the language groups furthest from English, and the increase in earnings with duration is steeper the …
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high levels of English language proficiency and earnings. They experience disadvantages in both dimensions at arrival, but … earnings of other immigrants. This pattern is seen in the most recent data, the American Community Survey, 2005 to 2009, which … of schooling and English proficiency. Moreover, they appear to secure greater earnings payoffs in the US labor market …
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We reassess the empirical effect of income and employment on self-reported well-being. Our analysis makes use of a novel two-step estimation procedure that allows applying instrumental variable regressions with ordinal observable data. As suggested by the theory of incomplete markets, we...
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