We investigate the pattern of intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society. We consider the case … language affects language skills as well as the language parents speak to their children. Empirically, we exploit the natural … experiment generated by a language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan-Spanish bilingualism at school to estimate the …

We investigate the pattern of intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society. We consider the case … language affects language skills as well as the language parents speak to their children. Empirically, we exploit the natural … experiment generated by a language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan-Spanish bilingualism at school to estimate the …

We investigate the pattern of intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society. We consider the case … language affects language skills as well as the language parents speak to their children. Empirically, we exploit the natural … experiment generated by a language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan–Spanish bilingualism at school to estimate the …

This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of language capital amongst immigrants, and the effect of … language deficiencies on the economic performance of second generation immigrants. Using a long panel that oversamples … association between parents' and children's fluency, conditional on parental and family characteristics. We find that language …

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

. Learning a new language is an investment in human capital. Migrants must learn the language of their destination country, but … even non-migrants must often learn other languages if their work involves communicating with foreigners. Economic studies … have shown that fluency in a dominant language is important to economic success and increases economic efficiency. However …

. Learning a new language is an investment in human capital. Migrants must learn the language of their destination country, but … even non-migrants must often learn other languages if their work involves communicating with foreigners. Economic studies … have shown that fluency in a dominant language is important to economic success and increases economic efficiency. However …

Germany. Drawing from comparative linguistics, we derive a measure of linguistic distance based on the automatic comparison of …There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their … destination country. This linguistic distance is an obstacle to the acquisition of a language, which leads to large differences in …