This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its … 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 …

specialized occupations. Compared to non-migrants, immigrants receive more than twice the return for using English. Returns depend … crucially on speaking German well, thus excluding many first generation migrants and are found to occur particularly in service … occupations that involve international factor flows. In such occupations it is likely that migrants can apply complementary skills …

We investigate the pattern of intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society. We consider the case … language affects language skills as well as the language parents speak to their children. Empirically, we exploit the natural … experiment generated by a language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan-Spanish bilingualism at school to estimate the …

We investigate the pattern of intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society. We consider the case … language affects language skills as well as the language parents speak to their children. Empirically, we exploit the natural … experiment generated by a language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan-Spanish bilingualism at school to estimate the …

This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of language capital amongst immigrants, and the effect of … language deficiencies on the economic performance of second generation immigrants. Using a long panel that oversamples … association between parents' and children's fluency, conditional on parental and family characteristics. We find that language …