market consequences of that proficiency, as expressed in their earnings. Immigrants tend to take language differences across … other variables, and Economic incentives, including the effects of higher earnings and a longer expected duration of … residence. This model is shown to be robust for the several immigrant receiving countries studied. Earnings among immigrants are …

international literature on the measured incidence of educational mismatch and its earnings effects. We use a rich Australian … rate of over-education is 32.3%. The earnings penalty for each year of over-education is 2.5%, which is larger than 0.6% in …

education. While men with low skills out-earn their higher-skilled counterparts when they are very young, their earnings are …

relationship between overeducation, earnings and job satisfaction among graduates in China. We find consistent evidence, across …

This paper uses UK data to estimate the returns to schooling. We address the endogeneity of schooling by exploiting the …

/or for the endogeneity of educational choices by using instrumental variables significantly increases the returns to …

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 … proficiency in the official languages (English and French). Using selectivity correction techniques, it is shown that there is …