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

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 …

We show theoretically that when larger firms pay higher wages and are more likely to be caught defaulting on labour …

This paper asks to what extent host language proficiency can insure immigrants against the risk of ending up in … discriminates between three forms of mismatch, overqualification, under-qualification and over-skilling. Host language proficiency … that treatment effects are heterogeneous. English language proficiency among immigrants in Australia reduces the …

This study examines the causal effects of Dutch language proficiency of immigrants from four main source countries on … their labour market and social integration outcomes. Language proficiency appears ranked according to linguistic distance to … The Netherlands, a ranking that even holds for the gender gap in proficiency. We assess the effect of language proficiency …

a new language more easily than older children, we construct an instrument for English proficiency using age at arrival … speak their same native language, but not necessarily in areas with a high concentration of people of their same ethnicity … their residential location decision is language spoken by residents, as opposed to ethnicity or country of birth. We also …

We examine the impact of language training on the economic integration of immigrants in France. The assignment to this … test score of an initial language exam is below a certain threshold. This eligibility rule creates a discontinuity in the … relation between the test result and the variables of interest, which is used to estimate the causal effect of language …