objective of this paper is to assess to what extent validation and renewal fees as well as translation costs affect the … validation behavior of applicants. Translation costs seem to have an impact as well. The important role played by fees suggests …

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 …

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 …