-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children\'s host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents\' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …

operationalize this indirect fiscal effect in a model of immigration and the labor market. We derive closed-form expressions for this … effect that has previously been documented. This challenges the perception of low-skilled immigration as a fiscal burden. …

In this paper we deliver first causal evidence on the relationship between immigrant host country language proficiency … and homeownership. Using an instrumental variable strategy, we find a substantial positive impact of language skills on … capital and, in particular, language proficiency for socio-economic assimilation. …

operationalize this indirect fiscal effect in various models of immigration and the labor market. We derive closed-form expressions … negative direct fiscal effect that has previously been documented. This challenges the perception of low-skilled immigration as …

This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that … language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and … determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants[...] …