Speaking the language of the host country eases migrants' integration and tends to boost their economic success in the … country of destination. However, the decision to acquire language skills may in itself be determined by the intention to … migrate. In addition, conditional on being a migrant, the relation between language skills and migrants' integration and …

-arrival period are lowest for the language groups furthest from English, and the increase in earnings with duration is steeper the … destination language appears, therefore, to play a crucial role in generating the inverse relationship between post …

English as a first language. We investigate whether this has an impact on the educational outcomes of native English speakers …

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 …