differences between first- and second-generation immigrants. This measure is finer than immigrant generation and expands on the …-generation immigrants and second-generation immigrants whose parents arrived shortly before birth. For most outcomes considered, I find that …

We provide new evidence about language assimilation and its effect on test scores using data from two rounds (conducted … approximately six years apart) of the New Immigrants Survey (NIS). As part of the NIS interviews, U.S. born and foreign …-born children of immigrants were asked to take Woodcock-Johnson achievement test. In both rounds, prior to the administration of …

In this paper, we study the evolution of cognitive and noncognitive skills gaps for children of immigrants between … kindergarten and 5th grade. We find some evidence that children of immigrants begin school with lower math scores than children of … natives, but this gap disappears in later elementary school. For noncognitive skills, children of immigrants and children of …

influence of reading performance on math performance, highlighting the importance of early language support for immigrants for …

destination language skills, and Economic incentives for acquiring this proficiency, (3) the consequences for immigrants of …This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its … primary focuses are on: (1) the effect of the language skills of an individual on the choice of destination among …

This paper is an analysis of the determinates of Hebrew language speaking and writing skills and the determinates of … earnings among adult male Jewish immigrants in Israel, using the 1972 Census of Israel. Among other findings, Hebrew speaking … migration and if many others in the area in which the respondent lives speak the same origin language. Country of origin and …

There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their … study aims at quantifying the influence of linguistic distance on the language acquisition of immigrants in the US and in … destination country. This linguistic distance is an obstacle to the acquisition of a language, which leads to large differences in …

This paper analyzes the Hebrew language proficiency, probability of employment, and labor market earnings of immigrants … features of the analysis include the study of long-duration immigrants (3 to 20 years), and analyses for: males and females …, primary reasons for immigration, the subsidized intensive Hebrew language training program (ulpan), Ethiopian Jews, and Jewish …

creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants … especially those with limited English language skills and recent data suggest that North Carolina has the 8th largest ELL student … population with over 60 percent of immigrants coming from Latin America and the Caribbean. While past research suggests negative …

immigrants. It presents a model of immigrant destination language acquisition based on economic incentives, exposure to the … destination language, and efficiency in second language acquisition. A unique data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to …This paper is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency (speaking, reading and writing) among …