, Canada, Australia, the UK, Germany, Israel and Spain …This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its … primary focuses are on:(1) the effect of the language skills of an individual on the choice of destination among international …

Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship … aims at language as a criterion for legal immigration. Canada, in effect, does not base entry or citizenship on knowledge … of either of its official languages. Acquisition of a second language in Canada is voluntary and largely dependent on …

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 paper analyzes the impact of missionary activity on English language proficiency and labor market earnings of all …

This paper analyzes the Hebrew language proficiency, probability of employment, and labor market earnings of immigrants …, primary reasons for immigration, the subsidized intensive Hebrew language training program (ulpan), Ethiopian Jews, and Jewish … capital variables.Results from multivariate analyses largely accord with the "standard theoretical model" of language …

We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to …

influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late … 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the … empirical analysis consistently reveal that the policy change has no detectable impact on the employment rate, wages, over …

This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to investigate the impact of Spanish language … earning a premium of almost 50%. This conspicuous complementarity between formal qualifications and language skills poses a … challenge for traditional language training policies, for these typically neglect the immigrants' heterogeneous educational …

in language and emotional development. Our data come from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) which allows us to analyze … children's language and emotional development in depth. We relax the usual assumption that the production function underpinning … child development is not itself a function of the age of the child and estimate the bilingual gap in children's language and …

We investigate the pattern of intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society. We consider the case … language affects language skills as well as the language parents speak to their children. Empirically, we exploit the natural … experiment generated by a language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan–Spanish bilingualism at school to estimate the …