This paper extends the analysis of the acquisition of destination language proficiency among immigrants by explicitly …) probit analyses are employed. Immigrant English language skills are greater the younger the age at migration, the longer the …

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 …

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 …

A critical period for language learning is often defined as a sharp decline in learning outcomes with age. This study … 2000 US Census, a model of language acquisition from the economics and sociology literatures, and a flexible specification … language speaking proficiency among immigrants declines more-or-less monotonically with age at migration, and this relationship …

-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 …