international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the ease of obtaining proficiency in the destination language and access to … linguistic enclaves, (2) the determinants of destination language proficiency among international migrants, based on a model (the …This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its …

skills for immigrants in Spain. The motivation of the paper is threefold. Language skills are important for an individual … language proficiency for immigrants in Spain. …This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to analyze the acquisition of Spanish language …

This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to investigate the impact of Spanish language … earning a premium of almost 50%. This conspicuous complementarity between formal qualifications and language skills poses a … challenge for traditional language training policies, for these typically neglect the immigrants' heterogeneous educational …

This paper explores the impact of Spanish language proficiency on immigrant earnings in Spain using an instrumental … distribution. The return to destination language proficiency actually ranges from zero at the bottom quantiles to 30% at the top … quantile of the earning distribution. These findings suggest that the benefits derived from host language knowledge are …

This paper analyzes the Hebrew language proficiency, probability of employment, and labor market earnings of immigrants …, primary reasons for immigration, the subsidized intensive Hebrew language training program (ulpan), Ethiopian Jews, and Jewish … capital variables. Results from multivariate analyses largely accord with the "standard theoretical model" of language …

This paper analyzes the Hebrew language proficiency, probability of employment, and labor market earnings of immigrants …, primary reasons for immigration, the subsidized intensive Hebrew language training program (ulpan), Ethiopian Jews, and Jewish … capital variables.Results from multivariate analyses largely accord with the "standard theoretical model" of language …

destination among international migrants, the determinants among immigrants of destination language proficiency, and the labor …This chapter reports on the “economics of language” for immigrants—that is, the influence of language on the choice of … market consequences of that proficiency, as expressed in their earnings. Immigrants tend to take language differences across …

-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …

-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …

-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children’s host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …