The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada
By Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller. Social Science Research Network, 2002
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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 proficiency in the official languages (English and French). Using selectivity correction techniques, it is shown that there is complementarity between language skills and both schooling and pre-immigration experience. That is, greater proficiency in the official languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language proficiency and post-migration experience appear to be substitutes, that is, those with greater proficiency have a smaller effect of time in Canada on earnings.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science
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- Graduate employability: a conceptual framework for understanding employers’ perceptions (2012, background): “To understand the differences between foreign and domestic education better, a division between country specific and general human capital has been made (Chiswick and Miller 2003; Duvander 2001; Wiers-Jenssen 2008).”
- Language Knowledge and Earnings in Catalonia (2012, unknown): “Chiswick & Miller (2003) indicate that language proficiency in English and French enhances the earning return to schooling among Canadian immigrants, even accounting for the endogeneity of language knowledge.”
- Do Enclaves Matter in Immigrant Adjustment? (2002, background): “It has been found that immigrants with higher levels of schooling have a greater economic return from becoming proficient (Chiswick and Miller, 2003).”
- Does Higher Education Attained Abroad Lead to International Jobs? (2008, background): “The standard version of the theory does not distinguish between foreign and domestic education; however, in research on immigrants in the labour market, a division between country-specific and general human capital is often made (Chiswick & Miller, 2003; Duvander, 2001; Friedberg, 2000).”
- International Migration and the Economics of Language (2014, background): “This suggests a complementarity between language and occupational skill in the generation of earnings (Chiswick and Miller, 2003) The findings of Chiswick and Repetto (2001) and Berman et al.”