Our paper deals with econometric developments for the estimation of the gravity model which lead to convergent …

language other than English at home, and proficiency in English, are both analyzed in this paper using economic models and data … migration and years spent in the US to their language skills. The immigrants' mother tongue is also shown to affect their … approach to estimation are similar to the findings from a binary probit model, and the conclusions drawn from the analyses …

We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD … immigrants on bilateral FDI – provided that residents of the two countries have few language skills in common. We find a similar … effect for immigrants from third countries that speak the language(s) of the FDI host country, making them potential …

Speaking the language of the host country eases migrants' integration and tends to boost their economic success in the … country of destination. However, the decision to acquire language skills may in itself be determined by the intention to … migrate. In addition, conditional on being a migrant, the relation between language skills and migrants' integration and …

This paper studies the educational consequences of language proficiency by investigating the relationship between … modestly negative effect on boys' language test scores. In addition, we study whether there are spillover effects of peers …