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. …

This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using … Canada than in the US, where it predominates among the least educated. …

market and non-market income as well as taxes and social security contributions. This income portfolio analysis is based on … West Germans, East Germans, and immigrants; the latter being split into Ethnic Migrants (Aussiedler) and foreigners … have an even better relative income position than the autochthonous West German population. In general, we confirm the well …

We explore the adoption data approach to estimating causal effects of parental education and income on the same … mother?s or father?s education raises children?s education by about 0.1 year. Our estimated income elasticities are around 0.1. …

, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to …'s income. We also find some evidence for a positive interaction effect between post-birth environment and pre-birth factors. …

by testing if more satisfied people live longer. Our results clearly confirm the importance of income, education and … marriage as important factors in determining longevity. For example, a one-log point increase in real household monthly income …

I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004)prediction that individuals'reference income increases with ability …. To overcome the difficulty that the reference income is not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell …'s model to establish a link between immigrants' reference income and their return visits to their countries of origin. I …

I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004) prediction that individuals' reference income increases with ability …'s model to establish a link between immigrants' reference income and their return visits to their countries of origin. I …

The main task of the analysis is a comparison of the income development of employees in the private and public sector …