. 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. …

influence of reading performance on math performance, highlighting the importance of early language support for immigrants for …

, India, China), which has coincided with poor economic integration. Language proficiency is an important determinant of … language proficiency is crucial for good integration policy, as is understanding the relationship between these measures and …

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 … migrants, destination language skills display both a prerequisite for and outcome of successful integration. Investments into …

We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in …, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is … considerable and increasing with age. This gap is due to both, in-group favoritism and language group discrimination. …

We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in …, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is … considerable and increasing with age. This gap is due to both, in-group favoritism and language group discrimination. …

In many transition countries, the collapse of communism ushered in language reforms to adapt to the newfound …’ economic opportunities, since foreign language proficiency may enhance or signal productivity in the labor market. Recent … empirical evidence documents positive labor market returns to English language skills in transition countries. However, Russian …

-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children’s host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …