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This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of … degrees, but do not affect child health and self-reported adult health. The impact of language on fertility outcomes is also … immigrants in England and Wales. We construct an instrument for language skills using age at arrival in the United Kingdom …
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We study the impact of language deficiency on the health production of childhood migrants to Australia. Our … skills in health production: language deficiency directly affects the efficiency of health production and indirectly affects … large negative effect of English deficiency on physical health that is robust to a range of different specifications.In the …
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We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …
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Older people experience high rates of depression and suicide, yet they make a positive net contribution to the economy through activities such as employment, volunteering, and looking after grandchildren. The wellbeing of older people is therefore important not only on moral but also economic...
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fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong … deprivation indicators as well as in the case of self-reported generic measures of physical health. Lifestyle and chronic health …
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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 …
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Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and ordinary least squares, we show that stuttering is negatively associated with high …
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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 …
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) 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 …
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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 …
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