This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language … ongoing globalization leads to an increased demand for foreign language proficiency to reduce search and information costs and … migrants, destination language skills display both a prerequisite for and outcome of successful integration. Investments into …

language other than English at home, and proficiency in English, are both analyzed in this paper using economic models and data … migration and years spent in the US to their language skills. The immigrants' mother tongue is also shown to affect their … mirror those in studies based on the 1980 and 1990 US Censuses. Thus, the model of language skills presented appears to be …

This paper explores the impact of English language proficiency and country of origin on the occupational choice of high … immigrants from some origins with little exposure to English and whose native language is far from English tend to be in some …

There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their … destination country. This linguistic distance is an obstacle to the acquisition of a language, which leads to large differences in … the attainments of the language skills necessary for economic and social integration in the destination country. This …

language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …

This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of … immigrants in England and Wales. We construct an instrument for language skills using age at arrival in the United Kingdom … English language skills significantly lower the probability of having no qualifications and raise that of obtaining academic …

This paper analyzes the impact of missionary activity on English language proficiency and labor market earnings of all …

This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to analyze the acquisition of Spanish language … skills for immigrants in Spain. The motivation of the paper is threefold. Language skills are important for an individual … is to explore the impact of speaking multiple foreign languages on host language learning for immigrants. The results …

This study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment process among immigrants in … language skills in immigrant selection. A difference between differences approach is used to isolate the impacts of these … category, educational attainment and age at migration impact on immigrant's language skills. The increased English Proficiency …

This paper examines the link between trade-induced changes in local labor market opportunities and English language … result of actual improvements in English language speaking abilities, we show that low-skilled immigrants in trade …