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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

This paper uses the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia to analyze the determinants of the level and growth … in earnings of adult male immigrants in their first 3.5 years in Australia. The theoretical framework is based on the … for immigrants with higher levels of skill and who are economic/skills tested migrants, as distinct from family based and …

This paper is concerned with why immigrants appear to have consistently lower partial effects of schooling on earnings …. Immigrants have a wider variance in schooling, with an especially large proportion undereducated given the average schooling … level in their occupation. Immigrants are shown to receive approximately the same rate of return to the required …