language knowledge of low-educated migrants causes these results, as immigrants for whom themother tongue is similar to the …We examine the heterogeneous impacts of foreign language use at work on earnings of both native-born workers and … 2001. Our findings are the following. First, for native-born workers with a tertiary diploma, using a foreign language at …

percentage points. The marginal effects are larger for asylum seekers who speak a language that is linguistically close to the …

migrants in the host country. A number of employment outcomes are examined including access to employment, access to stable … labour market integration of refugees in the host country. The paper highlights the differentiated impacts of these resources … on the refugees’ outcomes at six months and one year after arrival. …

experiment in Switzerland. We leverage the fact that refugees arriving in Switzerland originate from places that have large … allocated to an unfamiliar language environment. The differences are driven by growth rather than gestation and manifest in a 2 ….9 percentage point difference in low birth weight incidence. We find substantial dose-response relationships in terms of language …

language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design … missionary activity of both Protestants and Catholics on an immigrant’s English language proficiency using a linear probability … squares model. Among other relevant variables, the analysis controls for the colonial heritage of the immigrant’s country of …

to arriving refugees. Our results suggest that TMENA immigrants' assimilation of German identity was unaffected by the … culturally closer diaspora of existing immigrants originating from Turkey and Middle- Eastern and North-African countries (TMENA …). Our identification allows us to emphasize the role of immigrants' culture in estimating immigration's socio …

Germany. The existing evidence shows that the economic outcomes of migrants are far behind natives. However, immigrants are a … refugees and other migrants and compare the employment probability gap between refugees, other migrants, and natives. I also … examine whether refugees have a lower employment outcome than other migrants and to what extent the level of education …

As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working ….5% for first- and second-generation immigrants, respectively. However, controlling for a wide range of observables (e.g. age … first-generation immigrants born in developing countries still experience a sizeable adjusted wage gap (2.7%), there is no …

by Immigrants' (SPVA) for the years 1991, 1994, 1998, 2002, we examined the impacts of social contacts and Dutch language … mastery of the Dutch language enhance immigrants'economic performances. The effects are much stronger for immigrants with low …-skill-transferability than for immigrants with high-skill-transferability, are stronger for economic migrants than for non-economic migrants, and …

and manual skills, these discrepancies are larger among immigrants with limited language fluency. …We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We … first augment a model of occupational choice to study the implications of language proficiency on the cross …