We study the effects of performance bonuses in immigrant language training for adults. A Swedish policy pilot conducted … arrived migrants. The results suggest substantial effects on average student achievement. But these were fully driven by … metropolitan areas; in other parts of Sweden performance was unaffected. The relative effects were larger for younger students but …

We study the effects of performance bonuses in immigrant language training for adults. A Swedish policy pilot conducted … arrived migrants. The results suggest substantial effects on average student achievement. But these were fully driven by … metropolitan areas; in other parts of Sweden performance was unaffected. The relative effects were larger for younger students but …

We study the effects of performance bonuses in immigrant language training for adults. A Swedish policy pilot conducted … arrived migrants. The results suggest substantial effects on average student achievement. But these were fully driven by … metropolitan areas; in other parts of Sweden performance was unaffected. The relative effects were larger for younger students but …

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 …

destination among international migrants, the determinants among immigrants of destination language proficiency, and the labor …This chapter reports on the “economics of language” for immigrants—that is, the influence of language on the choice of … market consequences of that proficiency, as expressed in their earnings. Immigrants tend to take language differences across …

We study the effects of performance bonuses in immigrant language training for adults. A Swedish policy pilot conducted … arrived migrants. The results suggest substantial effects on average student achievement. But these were fully driven by … metropolitan areas; in other parts of Sweden performance was unaffected. The relative effects were larger for younger students but …

immigrant pupils, we focus on language heterogeneity by using a novel measure of the degree of linguistic diversity in the … detailed information on students' language and math scores, their social integration, as well as on sociodemographic and school … linguistic diversity has no adverse effect on students’ language and math skills, but worsens the social integration of immigrant …

This study is the first empirical analysis to identify the causal effect of a separate preparatory language learning … preparatory classes with a focus on language learning. …