destination language skills, and Economic incentives for acquiring this proficiency, (3) the consequences for immigrants of …

country occupational matching on earnings and the economic rate of return to the foreign human capital of immigrants in Canada …. Examining occupational distributions we find that immigrants converge very quickly to the skill distribution of the Canadian … distribution. We also find that for a large proportion of immigrants, their intended occupation differs from their source country …

wage gap: occupational sorting, human capital differences, and discrimination. We find lesbian women earn more than their … discrimination and occupational sorting play a minimal role at best. Wage penalties, on the other hand, are largely explained by … discrimination. Interestingly, while we do find there are some differences in the relative roles of our three alternative …

of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take … modified, in order to take into account the contribution of segregation to the endowments and the discrimination components. It … results show that discrimination plays a more important role in explaining gender wage differentials than in explaining ethnic …