Download or read book The Effect of Linguistic Proximity on the Occupational Assimilation of Immigrant Men written by Alícia Adserà and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper contributes to the analysis of the integration of immigrants in the Canadian labour market by focusing in two relatively new dimensions. We combine the large samples of the restricted version of the Canadian Census (1991-2006) with both a novel measure of linguistic proximity of the immigrant' s mother tongue to that of the destination country and with information of the occupational skills embodied in the jobs immigrants hold. This allows us to assess the role that language plays in the labour market performance of immigrants and to better study their career progression relative to the native born. Results show that linguistic proximity shapes the evolution of job-skill content of immigrant jobs over time and in some cases affects patterns of wage assimilation of immigrants.
Download or read book The Effect of Linguistic Proximity on the Occupational Assimilation of Immigrant Men in Canada written by Alícia Adserà and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in the Economics of Immigration and Language in Canada written by Ibrahim Bousmah and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis consists of three essays on the economics of immigration and language in Canada. The first essay, entitled "Linguistic Distance, Languages of Work and Wages of Immigrants in Montreal", explores whether the distance between an immigrant's mother tongue and a Canadian official language (English or French), evaluated with the use of the Levenshtein distance measure, has an impact on his/her economic integration into the labour market. Using microdata from the master files of the 2001 and 2006 Canadian censuses and from the 2011 National Household Survey, I investigate the relationship between linguistic distance and the intensity of use of English and French at work in the Montreal metropolitan area. That region is characterized by the presence of sizeable French and English-speaking communities, as well as by a large number of immigrants from a wide variety of linguistic backgrounds. Those elements of linguistic diversity interact in the context of English being the international lingua franca. I find that linguistic distances between immigrants' mother tongues and English and French have an important impact on the relative intensities of use of the two Canadian official languages at work. I further investigate the role of the languages used at work on the earnings of immigrants by estimating earnings functions. I find that the use of both French and English are remunerated in the labour market, but that using English at work has a larger impact on earnings. The second essay, entitled "Labour Shortages and Immigration: The Case of the Agriculture Sector", examines the role played by immigration in filling labour shortages in rural areas. Reliable access to labour is an ongoing key concern for many employers, in particular for those in regions. As an attempt to help mitigate the effects of labour shortage on the labour market, immigration has always been deployed as a key strategy, but most immigrants are concentrated in large cities. Immigration programs that try to modify the regional distribution of immigrants by attracting and retaining immigrants to rural areas all have in common that they try to fill labour shortages in those regions. A sector that represents an interesting case in point, in the dual context of attracting and retaining immigrants in rural areas and in filling a labour shortage, is the agriculture sector. I use a novel longitudinal micro-database for the years 2001-2013 from the Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamic Database (CEEDD) to identify the factors that have an impact on the recruitment and retention of Canadian and immigrant workers in this sector. In particular, in response to the efforts to explore permanent residence pathways, whether or not former temporary foreign workers (TFW) with Canadian experience are most likely to stay in the sector after entering remains a key question for policy makers that I investigate. The third essay, "Immigrant Assimilation in a Multicultural and Multilingual Context", expands on the work of the first essay by looking at languages used at home. I investigate whether linguistic distance between an immigrant's mother tongue and a Canadian official language (English or French) has an impact on his/her assimilation to the host country's official languages. Using microdata drawn from the master files of the 2001, 2006 and 2016 Canadian censuses and the 2011 National Household Survey, I investigate the relationship between linguistic distance and the intensity of use of English and French at home for immigrants in the Montreal metropolitan area. I find that linguistic distances between immigrants' mother tongues and English and French have an important impact on the relative intensities of use of the two Canadian official languages at home. I further investigate the role of spousal characteristics and other variables on the assimilation of immigrants. The results suggest that the home environment is an important factor contributing to the linguistic assimilation of immigrants. Individuals exposed to an official language at home with their spouse have significantly higher rates of assimilation.
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language written by V. Ginsburgh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do the languages people speak influence their economic decisions and social behavior in multilingual societies? This Handbook brings together scholars from various disciplines to examine the links and tensions between economics and language to find the delicate balance between monetary benefits and psychological costs of linguistic dynamics.
Download or read book The Economics of Language written by Barry R. Chiswick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by two internationally renowned experts in the field, this book explores the determinants of dominant language proficiency among immigrants and other linguistic minorities and the consequences of this proficiency for the labour market.Using empirical material from a range of countries, including the USA, Canada, Australia and Bolivia, the a
Download or read book How Much Should Immigrants Speak English in Canada written by Seong Jun Choi and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates immigrant assimilation in Canada; specifically the impact English language proficiency has on wage differentials between adult male immigrants and native workers. Using 1991, 1996 and 2001 Canada Census reports, the analysis employs separate cross-sectional regression, as well as quasi-panel regression. Findings are consistent with the hypothesis that greater English proficiency enhances earnings in the Canadian labour market. It further supports that immigrants at different English skill levels experience varied economic assimilation into the labour market. Most immigrants face wage disparities due to limited access to jobs. Such limited access to Canadian employment can be attributed to primarily poor English skills, as well as immigration status. Finally, English language proficiency and return to post-migration experience, or education appear to be substitutes, that is, those with greater proficiency in English have a smaller effect of time spent in Canada on earnings, but not for those without any English knowledge.
Download or read book Immigration Language and Ethnicity written by Barry R. Chiswick and published by American Enterprise Institute Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Language Fluency and Occupational Success of Ethnic Minority Immigrant Men Living in English Metropolitan Areas written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Economics at the University of Leicester presents the full text of the paper entitled "The English Language Fluency and Occupational Success of Ethnic Minority Immigrant Men Living in English Metropolitan Areas," by Michael A. Shields and Stephen Wheatley Price. The paper was published in 1999. The authors discuss how English language fluency can affect occupational success for ethnic minority immigrants in the United Kingdom.
Download or read book The English Language Fluency and Occupational Success of Ethnic Minority Immigrant Men Living in English Metropolitan Areas written by Michael A. Shields and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Immigration and language imblance written by Canada. Department of Manpower and Immigration and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital Immigrant Earnings in Canada written by Barry R. Chiswick and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Language Ability of U S Immigrants written by Geoffrey Carliner and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Census of Population to examine the English language skills of natives and immigrants. The first main finding is that lack of fluency in spoken English is rare among native- born Americans. In 1990, 98.4 % of natives aged 18 to 64 reported to the U.S. in large numbers during the past 30 years, such as Hispanics and East Asians a substantial fraction were not fluent when they entered grade school, but at most 3-5% of teenagers and adults in these groups reported speaking English poorly or not at all. Second the vast majority of immigrants speak English well. In 1990, only 1/4 of immigrants reported speaking English poorly or not at all, though more than 1/2 of Mexicans and 1/3 of immigrants from other non- English speaking western hemisphere countries could not speak proper English. Although English skills improve with length of residence, after 30 or more years in the U.S. over 1/4 of Mexican immigrants spoke English poorly or not at all. Third, since the 1950s there has been a trend decrease in the probability of fluency (speaking only English or speaking it very well) among new immigrants of about 0.1 % per year, caused by the shift from European immigrants with strong English skills to Latin American and East Asian immigrants who arrive speaking less English. Overall, women are slightly more likely to be fluent than men, especially East Asian and European women. Even after controlling for differences in education, years since arrival and other factors, large differences in English skills by region of origin remain. These differences seem to be more associated with geographic distance from the U.S. than with the source country's per capita income or linguistic distance from English
Download or read book Migration written by Christian Dustmann and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses some of the many social challenges created by migration flows over the past decades. The volume brings together research from three different fields: economics, sociology and political science.
Download or read book A Model of Destination Language Acquisition written by Barry R. Chiswick and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper analyzes 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. Language practice responds to exposure, efficiency and economic considerations. Use of English or French is greater the younger the age at migration, the longer the duration of residence, the higher the educational attainment, the further the country of origin from Canada, the linguistically closer is the mother tongue to English or French, among those who are not refugees, among those from a former British, French or American colony, and among those who live in an area where fewer people speak the respondent's mother tongue.
Download or read book Black Identities written by Mary C. WATERS and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of West Indian immigrants to the United States is generally considered to be a great success. Mary Waters, however, tells a very different story. She finds that the values that gain first-generation immigrants initial success--a willingness to work hard, a lack of attention to racism, a desire for education, an incentive to save--are undermined by the realities of life and race relations in the United States. Contrary to long-held beliefs, Waters finds, those who resist Americanization are most likely to succeed economically, especially in the second generation.
Download or read book Statistics on U S Immigration written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-07-27 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing importance of immigration in the United States today prompted this examination of the adequacy of U.S. immigration data. This volume summarizes data needs in four areas: immigration trends, assimilation and impacts, labor force issues, and family and social networks. It includes recommendations on additional sources for the data needed for program and research purposes, and new questions and refinements of questions within existing data sources to improve the understanding of immigration and immigrant trends.
Download or read book Migration Between the United States and Canada written by Statistics Canada and published by Washington, D.C. : U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census ; [Ottawa] : Statistics Canada. This book was released on 1990 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
