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 …

who are proficient in the local dialect earn lower wages than those who are not. We also find that workers with better … dialect skills are more likely to settle for lower wages in exchange for social insurance. We hypothesize that they are doing … work. Further tests show that the phenomenon of "exchanging wages for social insurance participation" is more pronounced …