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 … official languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language …

their compatriots enjoy a large and positive earnings effect. © 2013 The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the …

capital of migrants. As a result, the nature of the immigrants’ labor market participation and their earnings are closely …

-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK … individual characteristics on earnings. This helped us to prevent selectivity biases such as cohort bias and survivor bias, which … are disproportionately non-white, suffer an earnings penalty in the labour market, whereas higher paid immigrants, whom …

(2006)”, we want to quantify the expected earnings differential between individuals who are proficient in Catalan and those … who are not, taking into account the potential endogeneity between knowledge of Catalan and earnings. The results indicate … the existence of a positive return to knowledge of Catalan, with a 7.5% increase in earnings estimated by OLS; however …

We exploit a large and long longitudinal dataset to estimate the immigrant-native earnings gap at entry and over time … estimate the associated immigrant earnings growth rate and immigrant-native earnings convergence rate. Our estimates suggest … that immigrants from more recent cohorts fare better than earlier ones at entry. Furthermore, the earnings of immigrants …

-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK … individual characteristics on earnings. This helped us to prevent selectivity biases such as cohort bias and survivor bias, which … are disproportionately non-white, suffer an earnings penalty in the labour market, whereas higher paid immigrants, whom …

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 …

–native earnings gap at entry and over time for the UK between 1978 and 2006. That is, we attempt to separately estimate cohort and … assimilation effects. We also estimate the associated immigrant earnings growth rate and immigrant–native earnings convergence rate … earnings of immigrants from more recent cohorts catch up faster with natives' earnings. While the convergence took over 30years …