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 explores the impact of English language proficiency and country of origin on the occupational choice of high … immigrants from some origins with little exposure to English and whose native language is far from English tend to be in some …

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 …

. Education matters more for women in terms of explaining earnings, whereas language skills are relatively more important for men. …

This paper is an analysis of the determinates of Hebrew language speaking and writing skills and the determinates of … migration and if many others in the area in which the respondent lives speak the same origin language. Country of origin and … primary or only language and who can write a letter in Hebrew earn about 20 percent more than those who do neither …

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 …

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

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 …

France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate …