Immigrants in economies with a dominant native language exhibit substantial heterogeneities in language acquisition of … the majority language. We model partial equilibrium language acquisition as an equilibrium phenomenon. We consider an … environment where heterogeneous agents from various minority groups choose whether to acquire a majority language fully, partially …

We examine the effect of language acquisition on the growth of immigrants' earnings. We gathered data on recent Soviet … immigrants to Israel that include retrospective questions on earnings and language ability on entry into their current job …. Language acquisition is found to interact positively with occupation level. Immigrant programmers and computer technicians have …

translation-related search costs. Our results provide causal evidence that language barriers significantly hinder trade and that …

any, differentiate teachers with high impact on student achievement in middle school English Language Arts from those with …

, partly in response to policies. Our results suggest that more segregated countries in terms of ethnicity and language, i …

language in visual art was dominated by conceptual artists, and the increasing role of language over time was symptomatic of … intellectual activity, to be read. The prominence of language is yet another way in which the visual art of the twentieth century …

century. Since kinship rules varied by caste, language, religion and region, we construct sex-ratios by these categories at …