, speaks Spanish at home. And whereas around 80 percent of adult immigrants in the US from non-English speaking countries other … than Mexico are proficient in English, only about 50 percent of adult immigrants from Mexico are proficient. The use of a … from the 2000 US Census. The results demonstrate the importance of immigrants’ educational attainment, their age at …

immigrants to the United States from 1965 to 2000, using the 2000 Census of Population. Comparisons are made to similar analyses … using the 1980 and 1990 Censuses. A consistent finding is that recently arrived Soviet Jewish immigrants have lower levels … of English proficiency and earnings than other immigrants, other variables being the same. However, they have a steeper …

international transferability of human capital skills results in immigrants entering into relatively low status occupations when …

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 …

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 …

characteristics of immigrants and features of their countries of origin. The empirical analysis is based on the 2000 US Census. Both … the characteristics of immigrants and the origin-country variables are shown to be important determinants of citizenship …

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 …

international transferability of immigrants' human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons …

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 …