The implications of human capital portability – including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and …. However, surprisingly, neither matching nor language skills have any impact on the return to pre-immigration work experience …, which is observed to be statistically significantly negative. Crucially, English language skills are found to have an …

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 …

) students in a particular elementary grade and language is twenty or higher. Using school panel data, we find a significant … significantly impact the standardized test scores of students with Spanish as their home language (comprised primarily of ever …

We empirically analyze the language proficiency of migrants in the Netherlands. Traditionally, the emphasis in studying … language proficiency and economic outcomes has been on the relation between earnings and indicators for language proficiency … language and job level. A lack of language skills may induce the migrant to work in jobs of a lower level leading to lower job …

students' scores on a language skills test administered after 16 months. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out …

We study the effects of performance bonuses in immigrant language training for adults. A Swedish policy pilot conducted …

when compared to natives. This pattern occurs for all countries of origin, although at different paces. Further, language …

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 …