widely used measures of years since migration and age at migration. It is scaled so that zero indicates that a child was born …

. In turn, migrants' decisions separate returning home from onward migration to a third country. We find that … to the predictions of the traditional model of migration, based on self-selection, migrants returning home are positively … selected relative to migrants emigrating to other countries. We also find that immigrants from a country outside the EU27/EFTA …

similarities between student and teacher. This study is the first to examine the role of native language similarity. Using a …, this study exploits variation in contemporaneous test scores and whether the student shares the same native language as the …

This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of … immigrants in England and Wales. We construct an instrument for language skills using age at arrival in the United Kingdom … English language skills significantly lower the probability of having no qualifications and raise that of obtaining academic …

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 …

-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …

). First, we find that educational attainment and language proficiency have a higher return in the Netherlands than in Germany … of labour migrants and their partners. The improvement is largely due to an improvement in educational attainment and … language proficiency. Third, for the Netherlands we find a positive relation between naturalisation and labour market position …