This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of … immigrants in England and Wales. We construct an instrument for language skills using age at arrival in the United Kingdom … English language skills significantly lower the probability of having no qualifications and raise that of obtaining academic …

This paper asks to what extent host language proficiency can insure immigrants against the risk of ending up in … discriminates between three forms of mismatch, overqualification, under-qualification and over-skilling. Host language proficiency … that treatment effects are heterogeneous. English language proficiency among immigrants in Australia reduces the …

This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of … immigrants in England and Wales. We construct an instrument for language skills using age at arrival in the United Kingdom … English language skills significantly lower the probability of having no qualifications and raise that of obtaining academic …

on English language skills, we test whether immigrants who are proficient in English choose to move to countries where … exogenous determinant for English proficiency of migrants of different ages, and we consider cohort data on migration among 29 … European countries, where English is not the official language and where labor mobility is essentially free. Our estimation …

This paper asks to what extent host language proficiency can insure immigrants against the risk of ending up in … discriminates between three forms of mismatch, overqualification, under-qualification and over-skilling. Host language proficiency … that treatment effects are heterogeneous. English language proficiency among immigrants in Australia reduces the …