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 …

job, has a large effect on earnings among the native born, and an even larger effect among the foreign born. This effect …, are held constant. Earnings increase with the respondent's own proficiency in English, with the English proficiency …

This paper examines the determinants of occupational attainment and the impact of occupation on earnings. Results for … both the native born and foreign born are presented, and these provide insights as to the earnings penalties associated … earnings gains associated with years of schooling derives from inter-occupational mobility. When occupation is held constant …