This study investigates whether foreign origin teachers causally affect their students language skills in secondary … experience in language learning, bilingual teachers seem exceptionally well-equipped in teaching languages to both native and …

This study is the first empirical analysis to identify the causal effect of a separate preparatory language learning … preparatory classes with a focus on language learning. …

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

This study demonstrates a series of links between minority language skills, their economic return and their … transmission across generations. Using a detailed matching procedure and different data sources, we estimate the likelihood of … indigenous groups, retaining the minority language along with Spanish increases employment opportunities. Furthermore, we show …

foreign language acquisition focusing on Norway. In Norway all students are taught, and are assessed, in English from an early … age. We demonstrate that exposure to native English-speaking peers increase Norwegian students' English language skills … English language skills and provide evidence of positive spillovers from immigrant diversity in schools that is missing from …

similarities between student and teacher. This study is the first to examine the role of native language similarity. Using a …, this study exploits variation in contemporaneous test scores and whether the student shares the same native language as the …

international vergleichbaren Fragebögen der PIAAC Daten ist es möglich, die unterschiedlichen Qualifikationen von Migranten und … beschäftigen wir uns mit Bildungs- und Qualifikationsunterschieden zwischen Migranten und Einheimischen in elf europäischen Ländern … im selben Beruf. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Migranten im Vergleich zu Einheimischen für ihre Berufe häufig …

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 … the attainments of the language skills necessary for economic and social integration in the destination country. This …

language skills of real-world migrants. Our findings show that better language proficiency in the cover letter has a strong …, technological improvements, and organizational changes. Due to these developments, oral and written language skills have become … increasingly important even in less skilled jobs. Immigrants - who often have limited skills in the host country language upon …