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

identify the causal effect of English proficiency on cognitive test scores, I use the fact that language proficiency is closely … badly or badly can explain 27-33% of the achievement gap between native and immigrant children in standardized language …-related tests. However, I find no significant language effects for applied maths problems or calculations. …

This paper explores the impact of English proficiency on the labour supply of recent immigrants in Australia. While …, and none in Australia, has been done with respect to hours worked by immigrants. The number of hours worked by immigrants … to Australia data to estimate a Chamberlain style Tobit random effects estimator. The results suggest a positive …

destination among international migrants, the determinants among immigrants of destination language proficiency, and the labor …This chapter reports on the “economics of language” for immigrants—that is, the influence of language on the choice of … market consequences of that proficiency, as expressed in their earnings. Immigrants tend to take language differences across …

population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and … status, language proficiency, immigrants' time spent in the host country and patterns of school segregation. Using a …

population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and … status, language proficiency, immigrants' time spent in the host country and patterns of school segregation. Using a …