In the age of migration, many developed countries face an increasing heterogeneity of their residents. Migrant flows often lead to political discussion about the impact of migrants on labour markets, economic growth, and urban agglomeration processes, and consequently many of these causalities...

We examine the heterogeneous impacts of foreign language use at work on earnings of both native-born workers and foreign-born workers, using a longitudinal survey, viz. the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) running from 1994 to 2001. Our findings are the following. First, for native-born...