significantly. We analyze how international student exchange affects students’ academic human capital. Using detailed student … find that, on average, exchange students lose 7% in terms of grades relative to their non-mobile peers, but less so in … Erasmus-facilitated exchange. Since students’ academic performance is an important factor in companies’ hiring decisions …

-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. …

analysed. Besides other things like language, culture or institutions this paper is going to argue that structural funds are …