The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied … incidence, wage effects and state dependence in overeducation among natives and immigrants. In line with previous research we … find a higher incidence and a lower return to overeducation among immigrants indicating that immigrants lose more from …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Recent research has tried to quantify how firms contribute to the immigrant–native earnings gap. Findings from several … countries show that around 20% of the gap is due to firm policies that lead to a systematic underrepresentation of immigrants at … immigrants toward higher-paying employers. This pattern is especially pronounced for immigrants coming from disadvantaged …

This paper explores the impact of Spanish language proficiency on immigrant earnings in Spain using an instrumental …

records have been linked to UI earnings data and also to secondary education records. Our main findings can be summarized as … groups, and 2) Earnings of the disadvantaged are hurt by low completion rates in postsecondary programs, poor performance … well as their completion rates and earnings. …