This paper analyzes the effect on earnings of the matching of English language skills to occupational requirements. It … that earnings are related to correct matching of an individual's language skills and that of his occupation. Moreover, the … role to play in matching immigrants to jobs that use their language skills most effectively …

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 …

This paper is concerned with the English language requirements (both level and importance) of occupations in the United … greater English language skills, whether measured by the level of these skills or the importance of English for performing the … is reduced by 50 percent, but is still large, when worker characteristics, including their own English language skills …

immigrants' ability to speak English. We allow for heterogeneity in the relationship between segregation and English language … those who are less residentially and occupationally segregated. The magnitude of the effect of segregation on language …

This paper explores the impact of English language proficiency and country of origin on the occupational choice of high … immigrants from some origins with little exposure to English and whose native language is far from English tend to be in some …

' selectivity has worsened through time. Historically, the educational selectivity of returning migrants accentuated the positive … selection of those migrants that stay in the United States in most countries' cases. However, patterns of selection among … migrants that stay have recently changed. A more detailed analysis with data from the last decade finds evidence of positive …

adult migrants in the US labor market. We employ an instrumental variable strategy, which exploits differences in language … important channel through which language skills affect wages of child migrants. Although the returns of adult migrants do not … depend on education, we find that child and adult migrants exhibit similar returns to language skills …

spoken by children of migrants with identical ancestral countries of origin, the analysis indicates that the presence of …