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 …

This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation …

cohort effects, negative assimilation (a decline in earnings with duration) is found for immigrants in the US from the …

-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 …