This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The
survey first examines the magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes the numbers and characteristics of international
migrants to selected developed countries, explores some of the economic factors motivating …

The early work of Gilles Grenier, and Walter McManus, William Gould, and Finis Welch
concluded that US immigrants who are proficient in the English language have higher …

This paper presents a survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on cultural
transmission and socialization. It has been prepared for the Handbook of Social Economics …

The national origin of an individual's human capital is a crucial determinant of its value.
Education and labor market experience acquired abroad are significantly less valued than …

Sjaastad (1962) viewed migration in the same way as education: as an investment in the
human agent. Migration and education are decisions that are indeed intertwined in many …

Research on the effect of language skills on earnings is complicated by the endogeneity of
language skills. This study exploits the phenomenon that younger children learn languages …

This paper uses the approach in the under/over education literature to analyze the extent of
matching of educational level to occupational attainment among adult native born and …

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 …

This paper analyzes the determinants of language abilities of migrant workers and the
impact of language proficiency on their earnings position. The analysis is based on data for …