In this paper, I estimate the impact of language courses on the wages of new immigrants. I develop a model of … immigrants' investment in language skills which affect wages directly, but also increase the proportion of pre-immigration skills … language course participation. Attending language courses for six months leads to an average wage increase of 11.3 percent. The …

I build a simple model of labor market segmentation in this paper. People of different language origins form separate … urban labor submarkets. Utilizing the reported work language in the 2001 Census of Canada Public Use Microdata File on … speaking workers earn more than workers whose first language is not English even though they all speak English at work. In …

We use panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to estimate the determinants of language fluency of immigrants … and its impact on earnings. Self reported measures of language proficiency contain substantial reporting errors. We …, using panel data. The repeated information on language fluency allows us also to distinguish between cohort effects and …

' proficiency in the language of their adopted country is correlated with their productivity, as measured by earnings. Two … ability is linked with language acquisition, and potential measurement error in the language proficiency measures, which would … probably result in under-estimation of language effects. The present study, which uses panel data for a 10-year period in …

Left- and right-handed individuals have different brain structures, particularly in relation to language processing …

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 …