. Learning a new language is an investment in human capital. Migrants must learn the language of their destination country, but … have shown that fluency in a dominant language is important to economic success and increases economic efficiency. However …, maintaining linguistic diversity also has value since language is also an expression of people’s culture. …

immigration, the presence of immigrant children in schools, and the effect of immigration on the age, sex, language, and … about the extent to which the character of immigration varies as well. There is much broader geographic variation in the …

. However, surprisingly, neither matching nor language skills have any impact on the return to pre-immigration work experience …The implications of human capital portability - including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and … post-immigration occupational matching - for earnings are explored for new immigrants to Canada. Given the importance of …

. Learning a new language is an investment in human capital. Migrants must learn the language of their destination country, but … have shown that fluency in a dominant language is important to economic success and increases economic efficiency. However …, maintaining linguistic diversity also has value since language is also an expression of people's culture. …

. However, surprisingly, neither matching nor language skills have any impact on the return to pre-immigration work experience …The implications of human capital portability - including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and … post-immigration occupational matching - for earnings are explored for new immigrants to Canada. Given the importance of …

, primary reasons for immigration, the subsidized intensive Hebrew language training program (ulpan), Ethiopian Jews, and Jewish …This paper analyzes the Hebrew language proficiency, probability of employment, and labor market earnings of immigrants … and non-Jewish immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU), in addition to standard immigration, demographic, and human …

This paper is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency among immigrants in a longitudinal survey … destination language proficiency among immigrants. Skills tested and economic immigrants have the greatest proficiency shortly … after immigration, followed by family-based visa recipients, with refugees having the lowest proficiency. These differences …

This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to analyze the acquisition of Spanish language … skills for immigrants in Spain. The motivation of the paper is threefold. Language skills are important for an individual … is to explore the impact of speaking multiple foreign languages on host language learning for immigrants. The results …

This paper explores the impact of Spanish language proficiency on immigrant earnings in Spain using an instrumental … distribution. The return to destination language proficiency actually ranges from zero at the bottom quantiles to 30% at the top … quantile of the earning distribution. These findings suggest that the benefits derived from host language knowledge are …

Immigration and multiculturalism are at the heart of modern western societies. The issue of language acquisition of … immigrants is intrinsically linked to immigration. We formally link language acquisition of immigrants to the relative size of … relationship between size of the immigrant community and language acquisition or language proficiency in The Netherlands. We find …