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 …

This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment … for other origins. Among women, the pattern of assimilation in earnings and employment is more positive than among their …

. 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 …