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 …

job titles, wage rates, and earnings for all employees. We examine initial job assignments, mobility between departments … departments and jobs within the firm as a Markov process. The estimated transition probabilities imply that expected seniority is …

, are the first to leave the firm (Last In, First Out; LIFO). Second, workers' wages rise with seniority (= a worker …'s tenure relative to the tenure of her colleagues). We seek to explain these regularities by developing a dynamic model of the … to seniority in wages. Efficiency in hiring requires the workers' bargaining power to be in line with their share in the …

traditional skill measures such as experience, tenure, on-the-job-training, and further education. In sum, our results clearly …

links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure and wage profiles. The model assumes that it is more costly for …

tenure distribution, and that analysing the changes in job stability based on the elapsed duration of ongoing jobs may be …