urban and rural communities on earnings in India. Besides these conventional stratification, yet another academic caste … which influence earnings-the English language ability, is also examined. The paper uses a large cross-section sample of …

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 …

This paper examines how human capital based approaches explain the distribution of earnings. It assesses traditional … estimating individual-specific earnings function parameters. The paper finds one's ability to learn and one's ability to retain … knowledge are most influential in explaining earnings variations. Marketable skills actually acquired in school depend on these …

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 …

This paper compares survey based labour earnings data for English graduates, taken from the UK's Labour Force Survey … (LFS), with the UK Government administrative sources of official individual level earnings data. This type of … administrative data has few sample selection issues, is substantially longitudinal and its large samples mean the earnings of …

This paper uses tax and student loan administrative data to measure how the earnings of English graduates around 10 … Business deliver substantial premiums over typical graduates, while disappointingly, Creative Arts delivers earnings which are … roughly typical of non-graduates. Considerable variation in earnings is observed across diff erent institutions. Much of this …

The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show … earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the … inverse relationship between initial earnings and earnings growth rates: the good fit between data and theory suggests that …