by Immigrants' (SPVA) for the years 1991, 1994, 1998, 2002, we examined the impacts of social contacts and Dutch language … mastery of the Dutch language enhance immigrants'economic performances. The effects are much stronger for immigrants with low …-skill-transferability than for immigrants with high-skill-transferability, are stronger for economic migrants than for non-economic migrants, and …

increasingly important even in less skilled jobs. Immigrants - who often have limited skills in the host country language upon … requirements, little is known about how immigrants' language proficiency is rewarded in the labor market. However, estimating the … causal effect of immigrants' language skills on hiring is challenging due to potential biases caused by omitted variables …

language plays in the labour market performance of immigrants and to better study their career progression relative to the …This paper contributes to the analysis of the integration of immigrants in the Canadian labour market by focusing in … with information of the occupational skills embodied in the jobs immigrants hold. This allows us to assess the role that …

proficiency, and the effect of language on earnings and employment probabilities of non-white immigrants. Our results show that … language acquisition, employment probabilities, as well as earnings differ widely across non-white immigrants, according to … results found for other countries, language proficiency seems to be more important for labour market outcomes of UK immigrants …

temporary migrants already in the country as sources of permanent immigration. An overview of key results in the literature on … the economic performance of skilled immigrants is presented with a particular focus on the wage returns to skill both in …

effect of concentrations on the immigrant?s language skills, as well as the effects on immigrant earnings of destination … language skills. Moreover, immigrant?s earnings are lower the lower their English-language proficiency and the greater the …This paper is concerned with the determinants and consequences of immigrant/linguistic concentrations (enclaves). The …

This paper analyzes how the implicit difference in time horizons between refugees and economic immigrants affects … Census to study labor market outcomes of immigrants who arrived in the U.S. from 1975 to 1980. I find that in 1980 refugee … immigrants in this cohort earned 6 percent less and worked 14 percent fewer hours than economic immigrants. Both had about the …

educated individuals. Introducing a foreign language into compulsory school curricula on the other hand, almost doubles the … number of emigrants to the country where the language is spoken and increases the total number of emigrants by 20%. Depending …

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