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 …

In multilingual labor markets agents with high proficiency in more than one language may be selected into occupations … that require high levels of skill in communicating with customers or writing reports in more than one language. In this … Catalan reinforces selection into communication intensive jobs/positions such as entrepreneurial, trade, and service …

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

measure is then used in an analysis of the determinants of English language proficiency among adult immigrants in the United … States and Canada. It is shown that, when other determinants of English language proficiency are the same, the greater the … measure of linguistic distance, the poorer is the respondent?s English language proficiency. This measure can be used in …

-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 …

We use Woodcock Johnson III child assessment data in the New Immigrant Survey to examine language assimilation and test … score bias among children of Hispanic immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits the test language randomization … (Spanish or English) to quantitatively measure the degree and speed of language assimilation, in addition to the potential …

expanded due to globalization in recent decades. It is widely believed that there are sizable economic returns to English-language …

high levels of English language proficiency and earnings. They experience disadvantages in both dimensions at arrival, but …

the countries' authorities, openness, and transparency, consistently with the theory. …