,000 languages which together account for more than 99% of the world's population. We find a robust negative cross …

might improve productivity through new ideas and innovation, linguistic diversity might increase communication costs and …

This paper is concerned with the English language requirements (both level and importance) of occupations in the United … greater English language skills, whether measured by the level of these skills or the importance of English for performing the … is reduced by 50 percent, but is still large, when worker characteristics, including their own English language skills …

This paper explores the impact of English language proficiency and country of origin on the occupational choice of high … communication skills are not very important, such as computer and engineering occupations. Moreover, the degree of exposure to … immigrants from some origins with little exposure to English and whose native language is far from English tend to be in some …

immigrants' ability to speak English. We allow for heterogeneity in the relationship between segregation and English language … those who are less residentially and occupationally segregated. The magnitude of the effect of segregation on language …