We evaluate a Danish reform focused on improving Danish language training for those granted refugee status on or after … effect emerged after completion of language classes and was accompanied by additional schooling and higher probability of … working in communication-intensive jobs, suggesting that language training, rather than other minor aspects of the reform …

outcomes of low skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low skilled immigrants. We innovate on previous … identification strategies by considering immigrants distributed across municipalities by a refugee dispersal policy in place between … 1986 and 1998. We find that an increase in the supply of refugee-country immigrants pushed less educated native workers …

US. We build a dataset of Irish immigrants and their sons by linking males from 1850 to 1880 US census records. For … comparison, we also link German and British immigrants, their sons, and males from US native-headed households. We document a … decline in the observable human capital of famine-era Irish migrants compared to pre-famine Irish migrants and to other groups …

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Census of Population to examine the English language skills of natives … and immigrants. The first main finding is that lack of fluency in spoken English is rare among native- born Americans. In … in these groups reported speaking English poorly or not at all. Second the vast majority of immigrants speak English well …

Common culture and common language facilitate trade between people. Minorities have incentives to become assimilated … and to learn the majority language so that they have a larger pool of potential trading partners. The value of … less likely when an immigrant's native culture and language is broadly represented in his new country. Also, when …

We examine the effect of language acquisition on the growth of immigrants' earnings. We gathered data on recent Soviet … immigrants to Israel that include retrospective questions on earnings and language ability on entry into their current job …. This finding may invite a reinterpretation of other studies on the returns to language acquisition for low wage immigrants …

the starting wage gap, and shifts in the source countries of new immigrants from Europe to Latin America and Asia account …This paper finds that immigrants on average earned about $0.50/hour less than native-born Americans in 1989. Immigrants … finds that when immigrants first arrive in the U.S. they earn significantly less than native workers, but they close the gap …

immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between … independently of their choice allows a causal interpretation of our estimates. We find that immigrants initially located in places …

In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test … whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …: immigrants took "simple" (manual-routine) type of occupations and natives moved, in response, toward more "complex" (abstract …