We use Woodcock Johnson III child assessment data in the New Immigrant Survey to examine language assimilation and test … score bias among children of Hispanic immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits the test language randomization … (Spanish or English) to quantitatively measure the degree and speed of language assimilation, in addition to the potential …

We use Woodcock Johnson III child assessment data in the New Immigrant Survey to examine language assimilation and test … score bias among children of Hispanic immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits the test language randomization … (Spanish or English) to quantitatively measure the degree and speed of language assimilation, in addition to the potential …

This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language … ongoing globalization leads to an increased demand for foreign language proficiency to reduce search and information costs and … overcome cultural barriers in the trade of services and goods and tourism. Against the background of scarce skill supply …

. Learning a new language is an investment in human capital. Migrants must learn the language of their destination country, but … have shown that fluency in a dominant language is important to economic success and increases economic efficiency. However …, maintaining linguistic diversity also has value since language is also an expression of people's culture. …

. Learning a new language is an investment in human capital. Migrants must learn the language of their destination country, but … have shown that fluency in a dominant language is important to economic success and increases economic efficiency. However …, maintaining linguistic diversity also has value since language is also an expression of people's culture. …

There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their … destination country. This linguistic distance is an obstacle to the acquisition of a language, which leads to large differences in … the attainments of the language skills necessary for economic and social integration in the destination country. This …

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 …