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

immigrants using the timing-of-events duration model. We take account of language course participation and progression in … destination country language skills. We use rich administrative data from Denmark. We find substantial lock-in effects of … positive for wage subsidy programmes, but not for other types of programmes. For language course participants, improvement in …