criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …

acquiring destination language proficiency, with an emphasis on labor market outcomes, and in particular earnings. Factors that …

monolingual English speakers, but the earnings differential varies sharply by the language spoken. Those who speak Native American … languages, Pennsylvania Dutch and Yiddish have very low earnings, likely because they live in isolated geographic or cultural … same, have statistically significant seven percent lower earnings. …

effect of concentrations on the immigrant?s language skills, as well as the effects on immigrant earnings of destination … language skills. Moreover, immigrant's earnings are lower the lower their English-language proficiency and the greater the … linguistic concentration in their origin language of the area in which they live. The adverse effects on earnings of poor …

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

This paper analyzes the impact of missionary activity on English language proficiency and labor market earnings of all … proficiency and earnings compared to Catholic missionaries. Furthermore, a higher proficiency in English enhances earnings. One of …

This paper reviews Jacob Mincer?s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through … theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the pre-Mincer period, and then discusses his analysis of human capital … and earnings developed in his 1957 doctoral dissertation and 1958 Journal of Political Economy (JPE) article. Further …

language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design … model and their labor market earnings using the human capital earnings function that is estimated with an ordinary least … earnings, and those from countries with a greater concentration of Catholic missionaries exhibit lower levels of both, compared …

criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …

market consequences of that proficiency, as expressed in their earnings. Immigrants tend to take language differences across … other variables, and Economic incentives, including the effects of higher earnings and a longer expected duration of … residence. This model is shown to be robust for the several immigrant receiving countries studied. Earnings among immigrants are …