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 … in Canada on earnings. …

destination language skills, and Economic incentives for acquiring this proficiency, (3) the consequences for immigrants of …, Canada, Australia, the UK, Germany, Israel and Spain. …

countries show that around 20% of the gap is due to firm policies that lead to a systematic underrepresentation of immigrants at … immigrants toward higher-paying employers. This pattern is especially pronounced for immigrants coming from disadvantaged …

This chapter reports on the “economics of language” for immigrants—that is, the influence of language on the choice of … destination among international migrants, the determinants among immigrants of destination language proficiency, and the labor … market consequences of that proficiency, as expressed in their earnings. Immigrants tend to take language differences across …

Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high … investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit … which a sharp increase in discrimination induced mass exit by one ethnic group and mass skill investment by the same group …

-run income effects. However, an activity level above the current recommendation of the WHO for minimum physical activity is …

-run income effects. However, an activity level above the current recommendation of the WHO for minimum physical activity is …