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Language proficiency and immigrants' economic integration : It is vital to measure language proficiency well, as it crucially determines immigrants’ earnings
Daley, Angela; Hu, Min; Warman, Casey - 2019
Over recent decades, Western countries have admitted many immigrants from non-traditional regions (e.g. Philippines, India, China), which has coincided with poor economic integration. Language proficiency is an important determinant of economic integration; in addition to being a component of...
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The wage premium from foreign language skills
Liwiński, Jacek - 2018
The globalization of labour markets makes language skills one of the key competences required by employers nowadays. Our purpose is to estimate the wage premium from foreign language skills (FLS) earned by the Poles. We also want to find out whether this premium is affected by the fact of...
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The returns to English-language skills in India
Azam, Mehtabul; Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - 2010
quantify the effects of English-speaking ability on wages. We find that being fluent in English (compared to not speaking any … English) increases hourly wages of men by 34%, which is as much as the return to completing secondary school and half as much … wages 13%. There is considerable heterogeneity in returns to English. More experienced and more educated workers receive …
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The returns to English-language skills in India
Azam, Mehtabul; Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - 2012
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Language and labor market success
Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2014
This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language-related human capital. (1) A general importance is demonstrated in the empirical evidence on earnings and employment effects of literacy as the ability to productively use written...
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Economic returns to speaking the right language(s)? : evidence from Kazakhstan's shift in state language and language of instruction
Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - 2014
This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from Russian to Kazakh. Using two newly assembled data sets, we...
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Economic returns to speaking the right language(s)? : evidence from Kazakhstan's shift in state language and language of instruction
Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - 2014
This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from Russian to Kazakh. Using two newly assembled data sets, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438031
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The impact of missionary type on the English language proficiency and earnings of immigrants
Larsen, Nicholas; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2015
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 heritage of the origin country to determine if it...
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The Returns to Language Skills in the US Labor Market
Isphording, Ingo E. - 2013
important channel through which language skills affect wages of child migrants. Although the returns of adult migrants do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089283
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Bilingual Schooling and Earnings : Evidence from a Language-in-Education Reform
Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2015
We exploit the 1983 language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan alongside Spanish as medium of instruction in Catalan schools to estimate the labour market value of bilingual education. Identification is achieved in a difference-in-differences framework exploiting variation in exposure...
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