This paper is concerned with why immigrants appear to have consistently lower partial effects of schooling on earnings … a small positive effect of overeducation. About two-thirds of the smaller effect of schooling on earnings for immigrants …. Immigrants have a wider variance in schooling, with an especially large proportion undereducated given the average schooling …

of schooling typical for a given occupation. The return to usual years of schooling across different occupations is found …’ education in a certain occupation, there is no additional reward in earnings for natives compared to foreign workers. Immigrants …

the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for … schooling that are above that which is usual for a worker’s occupation are associated with very low increases in earnings … earnings. This ineffective use of surplus education appears across all occupations and high-skilled education levels. Although …

The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied … of overeducation among non-Western immigrants. We also analyze whether there is state-dependence in overeducation and … extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by investigating whether this is a more severe problem among immigrants …

The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied … of overeducation among non-Western immigrants. We also analyze whether there is state-dependence in overeducation and … extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by investigating whether this is a more severe problem among immigrants …

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 …Compared to other immigrants to the United States, recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have achieved …

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 … official languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language …

consequences for earnings, of computer use by both the native born and the foreign born. Focussing on the foreign born, the … use in Australia is much higher than in most of the countries that Australia’s immigrants come from, this evidence … suggests a high degree of favorable selection in migration. Study of the links between earnings, computer use and other human …

We create a longitudinal data set by matching immigrants in Israel’s censuses for 1983 and 1995. These panel data … reject the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis (IAH), which predicts that immigrants with shorter durations in 1983 should have … experienced faster earnings growth between 1983 and 1995. By contrast, IAH is corroborated by the synthetic cohort methodology …

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 … show that returns to human capital are considerably lower for immigrants as compared to natives and that there is no return …