This paper examines whether language classes raises refugees' language proficiency and improves their socio … in Denmark, as well as the quasi-random assignment of the refugees to locations with varying proximity to a language … training center. First, we show that refugees' distance from the assigned language training center is as good as random …

, a finding that has implications for immigrant settlement policies. -- computers ; internet ; immigrants ; language … use in Australia is much higher than in most of the countries that Australia's immigrants come from, this evidence … capital skills shows that educational attainment and destination language skills are complements to computer use. The use of a …

linguistic enclaves, (2) the determinants of destination language proficiency among international migrants, based on a model (the … international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the ease of obtaining proficiency in the destination language and access to … destination language skills, and Economic incentives for acquiring this proficiency, (3) the consequences for immigrants of …

impacts following from new immigrants are not found to be warranted. However, it is also clear that government policies and … practices regarding the selection and integration of new migrants affect labour market, fiscal and social/cultural outcomes …

effect of concentrations on the immigrant?s language skills, as well as the effects on immigrant earnings of destination …This paper is concerned with the determinants and consequences of immigrant/linguistic concentrations (enclaves). The … language skills and the linguistic concentration. These hypotheses are tested using PUMS data from the 1990 U.S. Census on …

We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants' eligibility criteria for permanent … residency to incentivize their labor market attachment and acquisition of local language skills. Contrary to what the reform … intended, the overall employment of those affected decreased while their average language proficiency remained largely …

result of actual improvements in English language speaking abilities, we show that low-skilled immigrants in trade …This paper examines the link between trade-induced changes in local labor market opportunities and English language … fluency rates among low-skilled immigrants in the United States. Many of the production-based manufacturing jobs lost in …

examines the determinants of skill downgrading among two types of immigrants - refugees and economic immigrants - in the German … labor markets between 1984 and 2018. We find that refugees downgrade more than economic immigrants, and this discrepancy …Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far …

We evaluate a Danish reform focused on improving Danish language training for those granted refugee status on or after … effect emerged after completion of language classes and was accompanied by additional schooling and higher probability of … working in communication-intensive jobs, suggesting that language training, rather than other minor aspects of the reform …

We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee … large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and irregular migrants. Refugees … and female irregular migrants are positively self-selected with respect to human capital, while male irregular migrants …