language other than English at home, and proficiency in English, are both analyzed in this paper using economic models and data … migration and years spent in the US to their language skills. The immigrants' mother tongue is also shown to affect their … mirror those in studies based on the 1980 and 1990 US Censuses. Thus, the model of language skills presented appears to be …

This paper focuses on foreign language learning as human capital investment or consumption. We apply the human capital … investment framework to foreign language learning and enlarge it by adding consumption motives. Based on a novel dataset … collected from language course participants in 14 countries worldwide, we estimate individual and country-level determinants of …