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

among the native born and immigrants in the United States and Australia. The analysis for immigrants is performed separately …

Research on the economic or labor market assimilation of immigrants has to date focused on the degree of improvement in … model, and examines the empirical relevance of the hypothesis using data on immigrants from the English-speaking developed … cohort effects, “negative” assimilation (a decline in earnings with duration) is found for immigrants in the US from the …

-skilled immigrants in the U.S. using the 2000 Census. The findings reveal that high-skilled immigrants with limited proficiency in … immigrants from some origins with little exposure to English and whose native language is far from English tend to be in some … fluent in English if they mostly provide services to immigrants from their same linguistic background. …

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 …

This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of Soviet Jewish immigrants to … 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 …

measure is then used in an analysis of the determinants of English language proficiency among adult immigrants in the United …

examines the relevance of the critical period to English proficiency among immigrants in the US. It uses microdata from the … language speaking proficiency among immigrants declines more-or-less monotonically with age at migration, and this relationship …

Using an immigrant assimilation framework, this paper develops a model of the occupational mobility of immigrants and … tests the hypotheses using data on adult males from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia. The theoretical …

use in Australia is much higher than in most of the countries that Australia’s immigrants come from, this evidence …