This study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment process among immigrants in … language skills in immigrant selection. A difference between differences approach is used to isolate the impacts of these … category, educational attainment and age at migration impact on immigrant?s language skills. The increased English Proficiency …

language (as in the slogan Just do it!) affects consumer compliance in hedonic vs. utilitarian contexts. Previous literature … consistently claimed that forceful language would cause reactance and decreased compliance. However, we find in four studies that …

Language serves two key functions. It enables communication between agents, which allows for the establishment and … to issues linked with trust, social capital, and cultural identification. While research on the role of language as a … learning process is widespread, there is no evidence on the role of language as a signal of cultural affinity. I pursue this …

language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …

This paper extends the analysis of the acquisition of destination language proficiency among immigrants by explicitly …) probit analyses are employed. Immigrant English language skills are greater the younger the age at migration, the longer the …

. Education matters more for women in terms of explaining earnings, whereas language skills are relatively more important for men. …

This paper is an analysis of the determinates of Hebrew language speaking and writing skills and the determinates of … migration and if many others in the area in which the respondent lives speak the same origin language. Country of origin and … primary or only language and who can write a letter in Hebrew earn about 20 percent more than those who do neither …