arrived in the 1950s and 1960s eventually surpassed the average native wage. Improvements in English language skills …

We analyze socioemotional skills' role for destination-language proficiency among recent refugees in Germany. While … socioemotional skills have been shown to predict educational outcomes, they have been overlooked for immigrants' language acquisition …. We extend a well-established model of destination-language proficiency and assume that socioemotional skills' effects …

specialized occupations. Compared to non-migrants, immigrants receive more than twice the return for using English. Returns depend … crucially on speaking German well, thus excluding many first generation migrants and are found to occur particularly in service … occupations that involve international factor flows. In such occupations it is likely that migrants can apply complementary skills …

capital skills shows that educational attainment and destination language skills are complements to computer use. The use of a …

effect of concentrations on the immigrant's language skills, as well as the effects on immigrant earnings of destination … language skills and the linguistic concentration. These hypotheses are tested using PUMS data from the 1990 U.S. Census on … language skills. Moreover, immigrant's earnings are lower the lower their English-language proficiency and the greater the …