This paper uses the approach in the under/over education literature to analyze the extent of matching of educational …. Married men, veterans and those living in metropolitan areas are also more likely to be overeducated. Among immigrants … overeducated and a greater probability of being undereducated. This is consistent with immigrants being favorably selected for …

destination language skills, and Economic incentives for acquiring this proficiency, (3) the consequences for immigrants of … are considered include age, education, gender, family structure, costs of migration, linguistic distance, duration in the …

duration of residence, the higher the level of education, and for immigrants not from Asia. Large positive correlations in the …This paper extends the analysis of the acquisition of destination language proficiency among immigrants by explicitly …

This paper is concerned with the location of immigrants in the United States, as reported in the 1990 Census. Where … they settle has implications for the economic, social and political impact of immigrants. Immigrants are highly …). The shift away from the east coast metropolitan areas to California reflects the change in the origins of immigrants from …

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

This study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment process among immigrants in … Australia using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, which comprises two cohorts of immigrants that arrived in …, the visa class under which the immigrants entered Australia is known from administrative records. Second, between the two …

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 …

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 …