the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language … presence of the effect. Immigrants with high learning costs are inclined to move to ethnic enclaves, so that the share of …

This study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment process among immigrants in … Australia using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, which comprises two cohorts of immigrants that arrived in …, the visa class under which the immigrants entered Australia is known from administrative records. Second, between the two …

earnings of immigrants as compared to native workers, in particular to test whether there is any systematic variation in the … labor market performance of immigrants across gender related to duration in the destination, schooling, age at immigration …

earnings among adult male Jewish immigrants in Israel, using the 1972 Census of Israel. Among other findings, Hebrew speaking … earn 2 percent less than Hebrew speaking immigrants who speak neither of these languages. Comparisons are made to a study … of immigrants in the 1983 Census of Israel, and immigrants in other countries. Estimates of the rate of return to the …

immigrants in Germany. We find that a parametric model which explicitly allows for misclassification performs better than a …

immigrants. It presents a model of immigrant destination language acquisition based on economic incentives, exposure to the … destination language, and efficiency in second language acquisition. A unique data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to …

proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language proficiency is augmented to include dynamics among family members. It … is tested using data on a sample of recent immigrants. Children are shown to have a negative effect on their mother …

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 …

effect of concentrations on the immigrant?s language skills, as well as the effects on immigrant earnings of destination … adult male immigrants from non-English speaking countries. Linguistic concentrations reduce the immigrant?s own English … language skills. Moreover, immigrant?s earnings are lower the lower their English-language proficiency and the greater the …