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Speaking the same language : the effect of foreign origin teachers on students' language skills

Höckel, Lisa Sofie - 2019 - This version: August 12, 2019

Population diversity arising from international migration does not only affect the labor market, but also its training …

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Starting off on the right foot : language learning classes and the educational success of immigrant children

Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Schilling, Pia - 2022

This study is the first empirical analysis to identify the causal effect of a separate preparatory language learning class on the academic success of newly immigrated primary school-aged children in comparison to their direct integration into regular classrooms. Employing unique administrative...

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Returns to Local and Foreign Language Skills – Causal Evidence from Spain

Isphording, Ingo - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013

This study examines the returns to foreign and local language skills of immigrants in the Spanish labor market. Different sources of endogeneity are addressed by deriving a set of novel instruments for language proficiency through a measure of linguistic dissimilarity. Using cross-sectional data...

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Maternal employment and adolescent development

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2005

This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds, controlling for a wide variety of child, mother and family characteristics. The results suggest that limited amounts of work by mothers benefit youths who are relatively disadvantaged and even long...

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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Development

Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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Economics of Minority Groups: Labour Market Returns and Transmission of Indigenous Languages

de la Fuente Stevens, Diego; Pelkonen, Panu - 2021

This study demonstrates a series of links between minority language skills, their economic return and their transmission across generations. Using a detailed matching procedure and different data sources, we estimate the likelihood of being employed for bilingual versus monolingual men for a...

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Deprivation, Segregation, and Socioeconomic Class of UK Immigrants: Does English Proficiency Matter?

Aoki, Yu; Santiago, Lualhati - 2018

This paper studies the causal effect of English proficiency on residential location outcomes and the socioeconomic class of immigrants in England and Wales, exploiting a natural experiment. Based on the phenomenon that young children learn a new language more easily than older children, we...

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Economics of minority groups: labour market returns and transmission of indigenous languages

Fuente Stevens, Diego de la; Pelkonen, Panu - 2021

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Deprivation, segregation, and socioeconomic class of UK immigrants : does English proficiency matter?

Aoki, Yu; Santiago, Lualhati - 2018

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Return migration and socioeconomic mobility in MENA : evidence from labour market panel surveys

Hlasny, Vladimir; AlAzzawi, Shireen - 2018

This study examines the effects of cross-border return migration on intertemporal and intergenerational transmission of … function of their migration histories. Return migrants, current migrants, and (yet) non-migrants are distinguished. Transitions …, demographics and migration status. Migration patterns are found to differ systematically between Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia, as well …

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