This study examines the returns to foreign and local language skills of immigrants in the Spanish labor market … discussed against the background of a severe foreign language skills shortage in the Spanish economy. Immigrants may deal as a …

This study quantifies the disadvantage in the formation of literacy skills of immigrants that arises from the … immigrants face significant initial disadvantages of linguistic origin that exceed existing differentials across wage … the initial disadvantage. -- Linguistic distance ; literacy ; human capital ; immigrants …

acquisition profiles between immigrants from English- and non-English-speaking countries of origin, to address problems related to …

Following the seminal work of Chiswick (1978), many studies have examined the extent to which earnings of immigrants …, empirical evidence mostly suggests that immigrants to Germany experience persistent earnings disadvantages and, if at all, only … vary over the settlement process. While these studies usually find that the initial earnings gap between native and …

immigrants is analyzed using data from the 2000 U.S. Census, the German Socio-Economic Panel, and the National Immigrant Survey … of Spain. Across countries, linguistic distance is negatively correlated with reported language skills of immigrants … linguistic distance has a strong negative influence on bilateral trade volumes. -- Linguistic distance ; immigrants ; language …

Anthropology to explain heterogeneity in language skills of immigrants. This measure is based on an automatical algorithm comparing … of language skill heterogeneity between immigrants. By lowering the efficiency and imposing higher costs of language … distance ; language ; immigrants ; human capit …

The labor market performance of second generation immigrants is a crucial determinant of integration. Labor market … generation immigrants in the US. Using 1994 - 2014 survey data, we analyze the relationship between inherited cultural values and … the economic outcome of more than 21,000 male homogamous second generation immigrants. We use the historical disease …

We estimate the effect of language training on subsequent employment and wages of immigrants under essential … unobservables that drive individual participation decisions, we find that immigrants with higher gains are more likely to select … into language training than immigrants with lower gains. We document up to 15% higher employment rates and 13% wage gains …

earnings risk. By using the German Mikrozensus, a precise measure for earnings risk is computed as the occupation-wide standard … deviation of wages. Following the procedure proposed by Bonin (2007), this earnings risk measure is used as dependent variable … effects of personality traits in labor market decisions. -- Risk attitudes ; occupational sorting ; earnings risk ; mundlak …