Over recent decades, Western countries have admitted many immigrants from non-traditional regions (e.g. Philippines …, India, China), which has coincided with poor economic integration. Language proficiency is an important determinant of … language proficiency is crucial for good integration policy, as is understanding the relationship between these measures and …

regression, we inspect the earnings effects of job mismatches for immigrants in Australia. This first application of the method … earnings distribution. Immigrants from non-English speaking countries experience lower earnings returns and a substantial … penalty based on regression at the mean, at the highest earnings quantile, both Australian-born and immigrants from non …

I examine the effect of English language proficiency on the occupational choices of childhood immigrants into the … United States. In particular, I focus on the annual earnings and skills composition associated with immigrants' chosen …'s superior language acquisition abilities to estimate the causal effect of English language skills on immigrants' choice of …

language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design … missionary activity of both Protestants and Catholics on an immigrant’s English language proficiency using a linear probability … earnings of immigrants. …

between those who have strong English language skills and those who do not. This study deploys a correspondence experiment … conducted on a matrimonial website, to examine returns to English language skills for females in a marriage market in Delhi …. Indicating strong English language skills in a marriage profile increases the number of views and interests received by 20% and …

This paper analyzes the impact of missionary activity on English language proficiency and labor market earnings of all … immigrants to the United States by using the pooled files of the American Community Survey (2005-09). We consider the colonial … immigrants from countries with a high concentration of Protestant missionaries tend to exhibit higher levels of English …

immigrants in England and Wales. We construct an instrument for language skills using age at arrival in the United Kingdom …This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of … English language skills significantly lower the probability of having no qualifications and raise that of obtaining academic …