We model political contestation over school language policy, within linguistic communities where weak property rights … property rights protection might exacerbate such language conflicts, even as they reduce the chances of persisting with … of why languages and cultures of the colonizers continue to play a dominant role in the educational systems of most post …

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 …, motivated by the human capital theory. Here we analyze whether there is a relation between proficiency of the destination …

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 …