This study of the determinants of earnings among adult foreign-born men using the 1990 Census of Population focuses on the effects of the respondent's own English language skills, the effects of living in a linguistic concentration area, and the effects of the stage of the business cycle at...

This paper is concerned with analyzing the determinants of language practice among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 Census. A model is developed using human capital theory and an immigrant adjustment process.

This paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of immigrants, based on human capital theory. The sources of wage growth are: (i) the rise of the return to imported human capital; (ii) the impact of accumulated experience in the host country, and , (iii) the...