This paper analyses the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After … specialized occupations. Compared to non-migrants, immigrants receive more than twice the return for using English. Returns depend … crucially on speaking German well, thus excluding many first generation migrants and are found to occur particularly in service …

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 …

skills for immigrants in Spain. The motivation of the paper is threefold. Language skills are important for an individual … language proficiency for immigrants in Spain. …This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to analyze the acquisition of Spanish language …

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 …

language knowledge of low-educated migrants causes these results, as immigrants for whom themother tongue is similar to the …We examine the heterogeneous impacts of foreign language use at work on earnings of both native-born workers and … 2001. Our findings are the following. First, for native-born workers with a tertiary diploma, using a foreign language at …

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 …