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 …

regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and … precarious contracts. The empirical results suggest that immigrant-native gaps are larger in countries with more immigrants …. Evidence also indicates that a stricter regulation of regular contracts increases the immigrant-native earnings gap and …

the 2001 Canadian census. These indices are then used to examine the role of schooling quality in explaining differential … returns to schooling and over-education rates by country-of-origin. The key finding is that accounting for schooling quality … virtually eliminates native-immigrant gaps in returns to schooling and the incidence of over-education. The quality of human …

This paper investigates whether returns to schooling differ according to the choice of the measure of earnings and the … the Heckman method, we show that converting earnings to common measures and pooling respondents produces different …

men's and women's hourly earnings and employment rate. A similar finding was reported earlier for a few Western European … countries. However, our study is the first one to estimate the impact of the compulsory schooling extended in a centrally … reform had a negative impact on the hourly earnings of individuals with primary education. …

and political participation. However, despite its vital importance, many immigrants never reach adequate proficiency in … designing measures to improve language acquisition. Empirical evidence shows that immigrants differ in their ability to learn …

high school graduates but not for college graduates, and conclude that high levels of schooling reveal true productivity …

career success as denoted by occupational status, linked to earnings. This is the first application of this analysis to New … Probit analysis to a sample of over 37,900 employed males. We focus on the occupational attainment of immigrants and the … native-born populations and provide evidence on the mediating effect of occupational attainment on earnings. Our analyses …

This paper investigates determinants and wage effects of educational mismatch for both natives and immigrants in … Germany. Using the GSOEP panel data from 1991 to 2013, I find that conditional on educational attainment immigrants face a … higher incidence of overeducation compared to their native counterparts. Among immigrants German language skills as well as …