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 …

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 …

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 …

foreign language acquisition focusing on Norway. In Norway all students are taught, and are assessed, in English from an early … age. We demonstrate that exposure to native English-speaking peers increase Norwegian students' English language skills … English language skills and provide evidence of positive spillovers from immigrant diversity in schools that is missing from …

We model political contestation over school language policy, within linguistic communities where weak property rights … property rights protection might exacerbate such language conflicts, even as they reduce the chances of persisting with …

We investigate the pattern of intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society. We consider the case …, transmission decisions are far from trivial. We provide a simple theory showing that changing the costs of acquiring a second … language affects language skills as well as the language parents speak to their children. Empirically, we exploit the natural …

We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD … immigrants on bilateral FDI – provided that residents of the two countries have few language skills in common. We find a similar … effect for immigrants from third countries that speak the language(s) of the FDI host country, making them potential …

Speaking the language of the host country eases migrants' integration and tends to boost their economic success in the … country of destination. However, the decision to acquire language skills may in itself be determined by the intention to … migrate. In addition, conditional on being a migrant, the relation between language skills and migrants' integration and …

Foreign language skills represent a form of human capital that can be rewarded in the labor market. Drawing on data … from the Adult Education Survey of 2007, this is the first study estimating returns to foreign language skills in Turkey …. We contribute to the literature on the economic value of language knowledge, with a special focus on a country …