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

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 …

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 …

consequences for earnings, of computer use by both the native born and the foreign born. Focussing on the foreign born, the … suggests a high degree of favorable selection in migration. Study of the links between earnings, computer use and other human …

This paper is concerned with why immigrants appear to have consistently lower partial effects of schooling on earnings … a small positive effect of overeducation. About two-thirds of the smaller effect of schooling on earnings for immigrants …

augments a conventional human capital earnings function with information on occupations. It also estimates models of … occupational attainment. The results from both the earnings function and model of occupational attainment indicate that the limited …

cohort effects, negative assimilation (a decline in earnings with duration) is found for immigrants in the US from the …

the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for … schooling that are above that which is usual for a worker's occupation are associated with very low increases in earnings … earnings. This ineffective use of surplus education appears across all occupations and high-skilled education levels. Although …

This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation …

This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation …, by level of skill, and by occupation. While point estimates differ, particularly when earnings equations are estimated …