Immigrants in economies with a dominant native language exhibit substantial heterogeneities in language acquisition of … the majority language. We model partial equilibrium language acquisition as an equilibrium phenomenon. We consider an … environment where heterogeneous agents from various minority groups choose whether to acquire a majority language fully, partially …

Malaysia recovered from the Asian financial crisis swiftly after the imposition of capital controls in September 1998 … play a significant role in facilitating Malaysia's rebound. However, the financial crisis was deepening in Malaysia in the …

, Colombia and Mexico -- and three East Asian countries--Korea, Malaysia and Thailand. It identifies a number of potential …

language skills drive this. I find they are important. I estimate that the response of immigrants' relative wages to … skill ratios in their own language group. Finally, in Puerto Rico, where almost all workers speak Spanish, I find immigrants …

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 …. Language acquisition is found to interact positively with occupation level. Immigrant programmers and computer technicians have …