the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The … favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the … greater the effect of the higher level of ability on lowering the costs of migration, and the smaller the relative skill …

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the … human capital, for immigrants and natives, in explaining inter-occupational and intra-occupational earnings progression … mainly driven by intra-occupational earnings progression. Moreover, and contrary to what is observed for natives, we detect …

the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The … favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the … greater the effect of the higher level of ability on lowering the costs of migration, and the smaller the relative skill …

in their effective hours of labor when they move to the United States; (iii) migration reduces inequality, more …) the offspring of the immigrants invest more in human capital than the United States natives; (v) the earnings ratio …

. It explicitly addresses the question of what workers newly experience in the richer economy (higher productivity), what … accounting literature, productivity differences in favor of the richer economy, due to differences in TFP and in physical capital …

We analyze the effect of interregional migration on regional unemployment in Italy. With the help of a simple two …

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 …

This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its … acquiring destination language proficiency, with an emphasis on labor market outcomes, and in particular earnings. Factors that … are considered include age, education, gender, family structure, costs of migration, linguistic distance, duration in the …

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 …