Limited language proficiency among migrants has been shown to limit migrants from various aspects of everyday life …, from the labor market to government services. In the USA, language access laws have been enacted to help provide Limited … indeed increase Medicaid take-up rates. I find that language access improves Medicaid take-up rates among LEP migrants …

international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the ease of obtaining proficiency in the destination language and access to … linguistic enclaves, (2) the determinants of destination language proficiency among international migrants, based on a model (the …This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its …

In this paper we deliver first causal evidence on the relationship between immigrant host country language proficiency … and homeownership. Using an instrumental variable strategy, we find a substantial positive impact of language skills on … capital and, in particular, language proficiency for socio-economic assimilation. …

and the larger the size of the group. Linguistic distance indirectly measures the effect of English language ability at …