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

considerable growth in earnings; others can hardly maintain their entry salaries. This article sheds light on the mechanisms … generating the observed heterogeneity in earnings progression by investigating the effects of on-the-job human capital … acquisition, explicit short-run incentives and career concern incentives on earnings progression. The model leads to predictions …

sector wage setting and trade unions, in determining earnings differences across different types of employment. To do this we … use the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study data from South Africa, which show extremely large average earnings … the earnings differentials within the private sector, including the union premium, but cannot explain the large premiums …

Many contributions suggest that earnings instability has increased during the 1980s and 1990s. This paper develops and … explaining earnings instability. To study the evolution over time of these different components we extract two estimation samples … contribute to the increase in earnings instability even if it is only their joint effect that generates what we observe in the …

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of …

measures - highly-educated immigrants from mainland China experienced significant employment and earnings gains during the 1990 … around the world. The U.S. government responded to the events in China by enacting multiple measures to protect Chinese … examine employment and earnings among Chinese immigrants who were likely beneficiaries of the U.S. government's actions …

This paper investigates the differences in early occupational earnings of UK male graduates by degree subject during … occupational earnings information from the New Earnings Survey (NES). The paper estimates relative earnings premia by degree … and earnings determination. Our analysis shows that there is a substantial amount of sample selection originating from …

This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of Soviet Jewish immigrants to … English proficiency and earnings than other immigrants, other variables being the same. However, they have a steeper … improvement in both proficiency and earnings with duration in the United States and the differences from the other European …

In this paper we analyse educational choices and earnings of individuals at two different levels in the Portuguese … decision, whereas normally only the first decision is modelled. Correlation between the error terms of the earnings functions … find empirical support for the existence of selectivity bias as the errors of the earnings functions are correlated with …