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 …

language other than English at home, and proficiency in English, are both analyzed in this paper using economic models and data … migration and years spent in the US to their language skills. The immigrants' mother tongue is also shown to affect their … mirror those in studies based on the 1980 and 1990 US Censuses. Thus, the model of language skills presented appears to be …

This paper explores the impact of English language proficiency and country of origin on the occupational choice of high … immigrants from some origins with little exposure to English and whose native language is far from English tend to be in some …

language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …