language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design … earnings of immigrants. … missionary activity of both Protestants and Catholics on an immigrant’s English language proficiency using a linear probability …

This paper analyzes the impact of missionary activity on English language proficiency and labor market earnings of all … immigrants to the United States by using the pooled files of the American Community Survey (2005-09). We consider the colonial … immigrants from countries with a high concentration of Protestant missionaries tend to exhibit higher levels of English …

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 …

earnings of other immigrants. This pattern is seen in the most recent data, the American Community Survey, 2005 to 2009, which … of schooling and English proficiency. Moreover, they appear to secure greater earnings payoffs in the US labor market … ; earnings ; schooling ; English language ; proficiency ; American Community Survey …

United States. In particular, I focus on the annual earnings and skills composition associated with immigrants' chosen …I examine the effect of English language proficiency on the occupational choices of childhood immigrants into the …'s superior language acquisition abilities to estimate the causal effect of English language skills on immigrants' choice of …

earnings of other immigrants. This pattern is seen in the most recent data, the American Community Survey, 2005 to 2009, which … of schooling and English proficiency. Moreover, they appear to secure greater earnings payoffs in the US labor market …Compared to other immigrants to the United States, recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have achieved …

This policy analysis discusses issues regarding the migration to Europe of large numbers of immigrants and refugees who …

The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied … incidence, wage effects and state dependence in overeducation among natives and immigrants. In line with previous research we … find a higher incidence and a lower return to overeducation among immigrants indicating that immigrants lose more from …

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. …