In multilingual labor markets agents with high proficiency in more than one language may be selected into occupations … that require high levels of skill in communicating with customers or writing reports in more than one language. In this …

Individuals with deficient language skills may compensate for this disadvantage in the labor market by acquiring more … measure the incidence of language proficiency on over-education. Catalan language, formerly confined to informal uses, became … co-official with Spanish and the language of instruction in the early eighties. This change, however, did not undermine …

of language proficiency on over-education, particularly, whether individuals with deficient language skills tend to …, that individuals with better language knowledge are more likely to be over-educated. However, estimating a model that … controls for individuals’ socio-demographic characteristics reveals the opposite: better language knowledge decreases over …

This paper is an analysis of the determinates of Hebrew language speaking and writing skills and the determinates of … migration and if many others in the area in which the respondent lives speak the same origin language. Country of origin and … family structure also matter. Earnings are found to increase with level of schooling, duration in Israel, pre-immigration …

major immigration reforms in Germany, a country with a relatively weak record of immigrant assimilation. For identification …

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 examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We … first augment a model of occupational choice to study the implications of language proficiency on the cross … less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the …

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 …

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 …