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 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 …

(and internal) migrants, both in terms of the ease of obtaining proficiency in the destination language and access to … linguistic enclaves,(2) the determinants of destination language proficiency among international migrants, based on a model (the …This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its …

composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last four decades. Moreover …, the population share of skilled migrants has been approaching or exceeding that of skilled natives. We offer theoretical … capital, population, income growth and distribution, and migration trends are endogenous. We derive new insights about the …

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

The implications of human capital portability – including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and … post-immigration occupational matching – for earnings are explored for new immigrants to Canada. Given the importance of …. However, surprisingly, neither matching nor language skills have any impact on the return to pre-immigration work experience …

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 …

This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of language capital amongst immigrants, and the effect of … language deficiencies on the economic performance of second generation immigrants. Using a long panel that oversamples … association between parents' and children's fluency, conditional on parental and family characteristics. We find that language …