proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language proficiency is augmented to include dynamics among family members. It … is tested using data on a sample of recent immigrants. Children are shown to have a negative effect on their mother …

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 …

This policy analysis discusses issues regarding the migration to Europe of large numbers of immigrants and refugees who …

immigrants to be favorably selected, although this is less intense under the later criteria. The overall favorable selectivity of … immigrants, therefore, depends on the favorable selectivity of the supply of immigrants and the criteria used to ration …

effect of concentrations on the immigrant?s language skills, as well as the effects on immigrant earnings of destination … adult male immigrants from non-English speaking countries. Linguistic concentrations reduce the immigrant?s own English … language skills. Moreover, immigrant?s earnings are lower the lower their English-language proficiency and the greater the …

the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for …-education is widespread in the high-skilled US labor market, both for immigrants and the native born. The extent of over …-education declines with duration in the US as high-skilled immigrants obtain jobs commensurate with their educational level. Years of …

and finance. The mid-19th century German Jewish immigrants settled throughout the country; often beginning as itinerant …-speaking Eastern European and Russian Jewish immigrants, who arrived primarily in the four decades starting in 1881, are the ancestors …

. 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 …

There are two complementary models of immigrants' economic and social adjustment - the positive assimilation model of … applicable for immigrants from countries that are very similar in terms of the transferability of skills, culture, and labor …-arrival earnings profiles of immigrants in the US from non-English-speaking countries according to the linguistic distance of their …