origin, as transferability is greater for countries that are highly developed or have a similar culture or language and lower …

Individuals with deficient language skills may compensate for this disadvantage in the labor market by acquiring more … measure the incidence of language proficiency on over-education. Catalan language, formerly confined to informal uses, became … co-official with Spanish and the language of instruction in the early eighties. This change, however, did not undermine …

of language proficiency on over-education, particularly, whether individuals with deficient language skills tend to …, that individuals with better language knowledge are more likely to be over-educated. However, estimating a model that … controls for individuals’ socio-demographic characteristics reveals the opposite: better language knowledge decreases over …

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 … migrants, destination language skills display both a prerequisite for and outcome of successful integration. Investments into …

. Learning a new language is an investment in human capital. Migrants must learn the language of their destination country, but … have shown that fluency in a dominant language is important to economic success and increases economic efficiency. However …, maintaining linguistic diversity also has value since language is also an expression of people's culture. …

. Learning a new language is an investment in human capital. Migrants must learn the language of their destination country, but … have shown that fluency in a dominant language is important to economic success and increases economic efficiency. However …, maintaining linguistic diversity also has value since language is also an expression of people's culture. …

. However, surprisingly, neither matching nor language skills have any impact on the return to pre-immigration work experience …The implications of human capital portability - including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and … post-immigration occupational matching - for earnings are explored for new immigrants to Canada. Given the importance of …

, primary reasons for immigration, the subsidized intensive Hebrew language training program (ulpan), Ethiopian Jews, and Jewish …This paper analyzes the Hebrew language proficiency, probability of employment, and labor market earnings of immigrants … and non-Jewish immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU), in addition to standard immigration, demographic, and human …