ongoing globalization leads to an increased demand for foreign language proficiency to reduce search and information costs and …This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language … literacy as the ability to productively use written information. Significant effects are found for developed and developing …

The implications of human capital portability – including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and …. However, surprisingly, neither matching nor language skills have any impact on the return to pre-immigration work experience …, which is observed to be statistically significantly negative. Crucially, English language skills are found to have an …

Fluency in (or ease to quickly learn) the language of the destination country plays a key role in the transfer of human … market. This suggests that the ability to learn and speak a foreign language might be an important factor in the migration … countries for the years 1980–2009 and a wide range of linguistic indicators to study the role of language in shaping …

45,000 schools. Matching this information to 439 current German regions, we construct a dialect similarity matrix. Using …

. Education matters more for women in terms of explaining earnings, whereas language skills are relatively more important for men. …

This paper extends the analysis of the acquisition of destination language proficiency among immigrants by explicitly …) probit analyses are employed. Immigrant English language skills are greater the younger the age at migration, the longer the …

This paper is an analysis of the determinates of Hebrew language speaking and writing skills and the determinates of … migration and if many others in the area in which the respondent lives speak the same origin language. Country of origin and … primary or only language and who can write a letter in Hebrew earn about 20 percent more than those who do neither …