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 … capital is important for understanding the economic integration of immigrants. …

Using the Children of the Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), we examine the association between education at the … youth. Education at the intensive margin is measured by two widely used standardized math and reading test scores, national …

. Successful matching is also found to significantly improve the return to pre-migration education and work experience. …A common finding throughout the Canadian immigration literature is that, despite having high levels of education …, recent immigrants endure substantial earnings disadvantages upon arrival that persist throughout their working career. This …

We model the joint distribution of (i) individual education trajectories, defined by the allocation of time (semesters …

affect the earnings of immigrants on the U.S. labor market in a difference-in-differences model that compares home …-educated to U.S.-educated immigrants from the same country of origin. Third, countries that improved their cognitive skills over …

affect the earnings of immigrants on the U.S. labor market in a difference-in-differences model that compares home …-educated to U.S.-educated immigrants from the same country of origin. Third, countries that improved their cognitive skills over …

estimates of the returns to business and STEM majors relative to education majors are biased upward by 15% on average. Using …I examine the extent to which the returns to college majors are influenced by selective migration and occupational … migration, occupational choice, and earnings where, upon completing their education, individuals choose a location in which to …

the degree of immigrant wage assimilation. However, the virtually zero returns to foreign work experience, commonly found …Using the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) I examine how immigrants’ foreign human capital is rewarded in … the labour market. I exploit the enhanced details on education attainment, provided in the SLID, to decompose human …