We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We … first augment a model of occupational choice to study the implications of language proficiency on the cross … less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the …

I examine the effect of English language proficiency on the occupational choices of childhood immigrants into the …'s superior language acquisition abilities to estimate the causal effect of English language skills on immigrants' choice of … English language acquisition difficulty among native speakers of other languages. I find that higher proficiency allows …

Speaking the language of the host country eases migrants' integration and tends to boost their economic success in the … country of destination. However, the decision to acquire language skills may in itself be determined by the intention to … migrate. In addition, conditional on being a migrant, the relation between language skills and migrants' integration and …

educated individuals. Introducing a foreign language into compulsory school curricula on the other hand, almost doubles the … number of emigrants to the country where the language is spoken and increases the total number of emigrants by 20%. Depending …

on English language skills, we test whether immigrants who are proficient in English choose to move to countries where … European countries, where English is not the official language and where labor mobility is essentially free. Our estimation …

demand and technology, production expansion, and specialization of native workers as immigration rises. …

English skills. We also find that acquiring better English-language skills improves the educational attainment and labor and …

capital skills shows that educational attainment and destination language skills are complements to computer use. The use of a … computer is shown to be a way the foreign born can increase the international transferability of their pre-immigration skills …, a finding that has implications for immigrant settlement policies. -- computers ; internet ; immigrants ; language …

capital skills shows that educational attainment and destination language skills are complements to computer use. The use of a … computer is shown to be a way the foreign born can increase the international transferability of their pre-immigration skills …