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 … with a higher concentration of Protestant missionaries tend to exhibit higher levels of English language proficiency and …

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 …

The globalization of labour markets makes language skills one of the key competences required by employers nowadays …. Our purpose is to estimate the wage premium from foreign language skills (FLS) earned by the Poles. We also want to find …, because the Polish language is not used for international communication, while as much as 58% of Poles command at least one …

observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of im-migrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …

) proficiency in the host country language, citizenship acquisition, and (to a lesser extent) duration of residence for first …

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 …