language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and … determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. This is based on Exposure, Efficiency and Economic Incentives …This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that …

immigrant‐native employment and social insurance differentials by admission class and by years since entry. For refugees and … family immigrants from low‐income source countries, we uncover encouraging signs of labor market integration during an …

This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household … immigrants and natives. Individual rates of wage convergence are found to be higher for immigrants who fled warfare zones, belong … contributes substantially to closing the wage gap with natives. The treatment effect is heterogeneous, favoring immigrants who are …

We analyze socioemotional skills' role for destination-language proficiency among recent refugees in Germany. While … socioemotional skills have been shown to predict educational outcomes, they have been overlooked for immigrants' language acquisition … language proficiency. In sum, socioemotional skills affect refugees' destination-language proficiency and thereby contribute to …

survey of Ukrainian refugees across Europe in June 2022 and combined it with geocoded conflict data. Most refugees plan to …What is the causal effect of conflict on refugees' return and integration? To answer this question, we launched a panel …

and labor migrants of the same arrival cohort. The analysis shows that refugees take significantly longer to enter their …This paper examines the labor market trajectories of refugees who arrived in Belgium between 2003 and 2009. Belgium has … offered relatively easy formal labor market access to refugees but they face many other barriers in its strongly regulated and …

The most commonly used model of labor market incorporation among immigrants in the United States analyzes their … earnings largely as a function of human capital variables such as education, language competence, age, length of residence and … may lose much of its explanatory power in other societies, where immigrants encounter different labor market conditions …

to arriving refugees. Our results suggest that TMENA immigrants' assimilation of German identity was unaffected by the … culturally closer diaspora of existing immigrants originating from Turkey and Middle- Eastern and North-African countries (TMENA …). Our identification allows us to emphasize the role of immigrants' culture in estimating immigration's socio …