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immigrants using the timing-of-events duration model. We take account of language course participation and progression in … destination country language skills. We use rich administrative data from Denmark. We find substantial lock-in effects of … positive for wage subsidy programmes, but not for other types of programmes. For language course participants, improvement in …
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We study the effects of performance bonuses in immigrant language training for adults. A Swedish policy pilot conducted … metropolitan areas. -- immigration ; language training ; performance bonus …
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Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in … Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This … the effects of language of instruction on reading skills and early labour market outcomes. The results indicate that the …
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Our paper studies the effects of dialect-speaking on job characteristics of Dutch workers, in particular on their hourly wages. The unconditional difference in median hourly wages between standard Dutch speakers and dialect speakers is about 10.6% for males and 6.7% for females. If we take into...
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