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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

educated individuals. Introducing a foreign language into compulsory school curricula on the other hand, almost doubles the … number of emigrants to the country where the language is spoken and increases the total number of emigrants by 20%. Depending …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

"A critical period for language learning is often defined as a sharp decline in learning outcomes with age. This study … 2000 US Census, a model of language acquisition from the economics and sociology literatures, and a flexible specification … language speaking proficiency among immigrants declines more-or-less monotonically with age at migration, and this relationship …