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 …

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 investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan …, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from … bilingualism on earnings while Russian was the official state language in the 1990s. Surprisingly, the Kazakh language continues to …

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 …

the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language …

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 …

Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship …. German naturalization, as of January 2000, contains an explicit language criterion for naturalization. The first German … aims at language as a criterion for legal immigration. Canada, in effect, does not base entry or citizenship on knowledge …

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 …