This paper analyzes the impact of missionary activity on English language proficiency and labor market earnings of all … immigrants to the United States by using the pooled files of the American Community Survey (2005-09). We consider the colonial … immigrants from countries with a high concentration of Protestant missionaries tend to exhibit higher levels of English …

language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design … earnings of immigrants. … missionary activity of both Protestants and Catholics on an immigrant’s English language proficiency using a linear probability …

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

market consequences of that proficiency, as expressed in their earnings. Immigrants tend to take language differences across … residence. This model is shown to be robust for the several immigrant receiving countries studied. Earnings among immigrants are …This chapter reports on the “economics of language” for immigrants—that is, the influence of language on the choice of …

individual characteristics on earnings. This helped us to prevent selectivity biases such as cohort bias and survivor bias, which … are disproportionately non-white, suffer an earnings penalty in the labour market, whereas higher paid immigrants, whom …-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK …

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the … human capital, for immigrants and natives, in explaining inter-occupational and intra-occupational earnings progression … paying occupations. A number of robustness checks confirm our main results. -- migration ; earnings ; human capital …

consequences for earnings, of computer use by both the native born and the foreign born. Focussing on the foreign born, the … use in Australia is much higher than in most of the countries that Australia's immigrants come from, this evidence … suggests a high degree of favorable selection in migration. Study of the links between earnings, computer use and other human …

great range of geographical origins and cultural backgrounds of immigrants make the study of the determinants and the …

consequences for earnings, of computer use by both the native born and the foreign born. Focussing on the foreign born, the … use in Australia is much higher than in most of the countries that Australia's immigrants come from, this evidence … suggests a high degree of favorable selection in migration. Study of the links between earnings, computer use and other human …