This study quantifies the disadvantage in the formation of literacy skills of immigrants that arises from the … immigrants face significant initial disadvantages of linguistic origin that exceed existing differentials across wage …

Anthropology to explain heterogeneity in language skills of immigrants. This measure is based on an automatical algorithm comparing … of language skill heterogeneity between immigrants. By lowering the effi ciency and imposing higher costs of language …

immigrants is analyzed using data from the 2000 U.S. Census, the German Socio-Economic Panel, and the National Immigrant Survey … of Spain. Across countries, linguistic distance is negatively correlated with reported language skills of immigrants …

acquisition profiles between immigrants from English- and non-English-speaking countries of origin, to address problems related to …

This study examines the returns to foreign and local language skills of immigrants in the Spanish labor market … discussed against the background of a severe foreign language skills shortage in the Spanish economy. Immigrants may deal as a …

We analyze the impact of job entry restrictions on the economic integration of recent ethnic German immigrants, using … probabilities of ethnic German immigrants and German natives and the employment probability in jobs that vary by the qualifications … share of the earnings gap between ethnic and native Germans. …

highest schooling and the highest professional degree obtained by younger cohorts. …