of Spain. Across countries, linguistic distance is negatively correlated with reported language skills of immigrants … economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and … its merits in two different applications. First, the effect of linguistic distance in the language acquisition of …

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 …

massively heterogeneous even within sectors. We use a novel establishment-level dataset from Germany to document a new dimension … a 20% increase in the number of immigrants in Germany as observed between 2011 and 2017. The welfare of natives …

We use a detailed establishment-level dataset from Germany to document a new dimension of firm heterogeneity: large firms … increase in the number of immigrants in Germany. Two new adjustment mechanisms arise under firm heterogeneity. First, native …

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 …, Canada, Australia, the UK, Germany, Israel and Spain. …

Speaking the language of the host country eases migrants' integration and tends to boost their economic success in the … migrate. In addition, conditional on being a migrant, the relation between language skills and migrants' integration and … country of destination. However, the decision to acquire language skills may in itself be determined by the intention to …

covers German language learning in 77 countries (including Germany) for 1992-2006. Fixed-effects regressions show that … language learning in Germany. Additionally, trade flows are strongly associated with language learning in non-EU high …This article investigates the macro-level drivers of adult-age language learning. We construct a new dataset that …

We estimate the effect of language training on subsequent employment and wages of immigrants under essential … heterogeneity. The identifying variation is based on regional differences in language training availability that we use to … into language training than immigrants with lower gains. We document up to 15% higher employment rates and 13% wage gains …

Anthropology to explain heterogeneity in language skills of immigrants. This measure is based on an automatical algorithm comparing … pronunciation and vocabulary of language pairs. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel covering the period from 1997 to … 2003, the linguistic distance measure is applied within a human capital framework of language acquisition. It is shown that …