-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 …

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. …

The paper investigates the language integration of adult labour migrants in six major West-European immigration … countries under study ignored immigrants' possible language problems until the early or even late 1980s. Compared to the intense … and sophisticated contemporary integration courses, the didactic quality of language courses taught between the 1960s-1990 …

Previous work has documented that speaking one's native language with an accent distinct from the mainstream is … associated with lower wages. In this study, we seek to estimate the causal effect of speaking with a distinctive regional accent … estimators show that speaking with a distinctive regional accent reduces wages by an amount that is comparable to the gender wage …