Using data from the 2001 Australian Census of Population and Housing, on adult men in full-time employment, this paper … international transferability of human capital skills results in immigrants entering into relatively low status occupations when … immigrant selection regimes (primarily family reunion in the US, skill-based immigration in Australia) do not impact on the …

. 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 …

for immigrants with higher levels of skill and who are economic/skills tested migrants, as distinct from family based and …This paper uses the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia to analyze the determinants of the level and growth … in earnings of adult male immigrants in their first 3.5 years in Australia. The theoretical framework is based on the …

laws reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of …

This paper extends the analysis of the acquisition of destination language proficiency among immigrants by explicitly … duration of residence, the higher the level of education, and for immigrants not from Asia. Large positive correlations in the …

This paper is concerned with the location of immigrants in the United States, as reported in the 1990 Census. Where … they settle has implications for the economic, social and political impact of immigrants. Immigrants are highly …). The shift away from the east coast metropolitan areas to California reflects the change in the origins of immigrants from …

measure is then used in an analysis of the determinants of English language proficiency among adult immigrants in the United …

This study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment process among immigrants in … Australia using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, which comprises two cohorts of immigrants that arrived in …, the visa class under which the immigrants entered Australia is known from administrative records. Second, between the two …

immigrants. It presents a model of immigrant destination language acquisition based on economic incentives, exposure to the … destination language, and efficiency in second language acquisition. A unique data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to … Australia, is used to test the model. This survey had three waves, at about 6 months, 18 months and 3? years after immigration …