language in national business and in inter-groupcommunications. How much weights should be placed on common language education … and on ethnic language education is a crucial issue in school education of minority students.This paper develops a model … education is reasonably effective in skill development) and only for those with adequate wealth. Common-language-only education …

We analyze the occupational mobility of immigrants between their origin countries and Spain and its determinants. We …, immigrants experience a strong occupational downgrading in Spain when compared to their origin countries. This fact is due to the …

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 …

residence, educational attainment and ethnicity. However, English as Additional Language (EAL) is capable of explaining … virtually all the remaining wage gap between natives and immigrants. Using the interaction of language of country of birth and …. -- native-immigrant wage gap ; English as Additional Language (EAL) ; age-at-arrival …

Language (EAL) is capable of explaining virtually all the remaining wage gap between natives and immigrants. Using the … interaction of language of country of birth and age-at-arrival as instrument, we find strong evidence of a causal effect of EAL on … the native-immigrant wage gap. -- native-immigrant wage gap ; English as Additional Language (EAL) ; age-at-arrival …

fertility rates when compared to natives. This pattern appears among migrants from all origins - although their fertility levels … differ. Results suggests that language acquisition is not a key mechanism through which age at immigration affects fertility … their native peers. -- fertility ; migration ; age at migration ; language …