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

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

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

for other origins. Among women, the pattern of assimilation in earnings and employment is more positive than among their …This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment … immigrant women from the ESDC, who are more likely than married immigrant women from the same countries to be economic migrants …

. Earnings data from the 2000 US Census for adult male immigrant workers are then examined in relation to these occupational … earnings are related to a “correct” matching of an immigrant's language skills with what is expected in his occupation …. Mismatches have a small effect on earnings – positive for proficiency in excess of the norms in the occupation and negative for …

-arrival earnings profiles of immigrants in the US from non-English-speaking countries according to the linguistic distance of their … immigrants from non-English-speaking countries are characterized by positive assimilation. Earnings in the immediate post …-arrival period are lowest for the language groups furthest from English, and the increase in earnings with duration is steeper the …

This paper analyzes the effect on earnings of the matching of English language skills to occupational requirements or …. Earnings data from the 2000 US Census for foreign-born adult male workers are then examined in relation to these occupational … analyses show that earnings are related to a “correct” matching of an individual’s language skills with what is expected in his …

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 …