This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that … language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and … determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. This is based on Exposure, Efficiency and Economic Incentives …

This study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment process among immigrants in … language skills in immigrant selection. A difference between differences approach is used to isolate the impacts of these … category, educational attainment and age at migration impact on immigrant?s language skills. The increased English Proficiency …

differences, however, vary greatly across countries with migrants in Germany and Portugal faring best relative to natives, and … those in Sweden, Denmark, Luxembourg or Spain the worst, particularly among non-EU born migrants. Gender differences are …. Education matters more for women in terms of explaining earnings, whereas language skills are relatively more important for men. …

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … complementarity between language skills and both schooling and preimmigration experience. That is, greater proficiency in the official … languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language proficiency and …

This paper uses two recent UK surveys to investigate labour market performance, the determinants of language … proficiency, and the effect of language on earnings and employment probabilities of non-white immigrants. Our results show that … language acquisition, employment probabilities, as well as earnings differ widely across non-white immigrants, according to …

effect of concentrations on the immigrant?s language skills, as well as the effects on immigrant earnings of destination … language skills and the linguistic concentration. These hypotheses are tested using PUMS data from the 1990 U.S. Census on … language skills. Moreover, immigrant?s earnings are lower the lower their English-language proficiency and the greater the …

This paper analyzes the effect on earnings of the matching of English language skills to occupational requirements. It … are related to correct matching of an individual's language skills and that of his occupation. Moreover, the findings are … in matching immigrants to jobs that use their language skills most effectively …

language other than English at home, and proficiency in English, are both analyzed in this paper using economic models and data … migration and years spent in the US to their language skills. The immigrants' mother tongue is also shown to affect their … mirror those in studies based on the 1980 and 1990 US Censuses. Thus, the model of language skills presented appears to be …

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 …