destination language skills, and Economic incentives for acquiring this proficiency, (3) the consequences for immigrants of … acquiring destination language proficiency, with an emphasis on labor market outcomes, and in particular earnings. Factors that …

market consequences of that proficiency, as expressed in their earnings. Immigrants tend to take language differences across … residence. This model is shown to be robust for the several immigrant receiving countries studied. Earnings among immigrants are …This chapter reports on the “economics of language” for immigrants—that is, the influence of language on the choice of …

on English language skills, we test whether immigrants who are proficient in English choose to move to countries where … migration models. We find that immigrants who are proficient in English move to countries where fewer individuals speak English …

This paper estimates the returns to English-speaking fluency on the socioeconomic outcomes of childhood immigrants. We … further investigate whether Muslim childhood immigrants face additional hurdles in economic and social integration into the … outcomes by exploring the differences in the country of origin and age at arrival across childhood immigrants. We first …

additional language may be associated with enhanced earnings because it may reflect what might generically be called 'ability … the additional earnings which accrue to the use of a second language more cleanly. We find very substantial, statistically …

clear finding is that mobility is associated with superior earnings outcomes, but principally through mobility as it relates …

degrees with the highest average earnings and underestimates the returns to degrees with the lowest average earnings. Second …, we decompose the impacts on earnings into effects on wage rates and effects on hours. For most degrees, the earnings …

of English skills on labour market status and, conditional on being a wage earner, on monthly earnings and occupational … level of skills in English and earnings, which is only modestly reduced when job-related variables and (especially … English) seems to stimulate labour market participation and earnings capacity, but does not substantially affect the …