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 brings new evidence to the existing literature on earnings differentials and returns to human capital for … immigrants and natives. It is the first paper analysing this topic using data drawn from the Italian Labour Force Survey, a large … nationally representative dataset. We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower for immigrants as compared to …

education affect earnings in the labour market. We account for differences in innate ability by aggregating subjective responses …

There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their … study aims at quantifying the influence of linguistic distance on the language acquisition of immigrants in the US and in …

criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on … immigrants to be favorably selected, although this is less intense under the later criteria. The overall favorable selectivity of … immigrants, therefore, depends on the favorable selectivity of the supply of immigrants and the criteria used to ration …

destination language skills, and Economic incentives for acquiring this proficiency, (3) the consequences for immigrants of … acquiring destination language proficiency, with an emphasis on labor market outcomes, and in particular earnings. Factors that …

market consequences of that proficiency, as expressed in their earnings. Immigrants tend to take language differences across … residence. This model is shown to be robust for the several immigrant receiving countries studied. Earnings among immigrants are …This chapter reports on the “economics of language” for immigrants—that is, the influence of language on the choice of …

outcomes, and a broad trend towards greater equality. Earnings gaps have been reduced by, among other factors, improved …